And repeal would deny an estimated 32 million American citizens health insurance in years to come.
Mr Clinton spent the first two years of his presidency trying and failing to guarantee all citizens medical insurance.
In 2002 Florida set up the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to cover homes that insurers wouldn't cover at state-set rates.
In 2008, the last year before the recession struck, Minnesota had 446, 000 citizens without health insurance.
He implored Congress to extend the payroll tax cuts and ensure the access to unemployed citizens to unemployment insurance.
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When Mr Romney was a governor it was not yet heretical for a conservative to propose compelling citizens to buy insurance.
By what stretch of the imagination (or the commerce clause), they ask, does the constitution give the feds the power to force citizens to buy insurance they do not want?
With more than 45 million U.S. citizens lacking health insurance and no end in sight to the rise of health care costs, Americans are increasingly turning to places like MedRetreat to help them outsource their health care to hospitals in India, Thailand, Turkey and Singapore.
In short, Dr Kitzhaber has lightened one of the blemishes on America, which is that more than 40m of its citizens have no health insurance at all.
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was the first appellate court to reach a decision on whether the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to force private citizens to purchase healthcare insurance under penalty of federal law.
State insurance programs, such as Citizens in Florida, should indicate to all residents in the state that property insurance on homes near the ocean (including second homes) is likely to be highly subsidized, and those living elsewhere may bear the expenses of the clean-up following the next severe hurricane.
In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform bill that will extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished.
Under the mandate, citizens must enter into ongoing insurance contracts with private corporations.
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In Florida, the state set up its own insurance company, Citizens, that offers highly subsidized premiums to residents in hurricane-prone areas.
The first step should be to bring together all the different identifications used by citizens, such as National Insurance and NHS numbers he said.
Six states have passed legislation, and two states have passed state constitutional amendments, asserting that the federal government cannot tell their citizens they must have health insurance.
Right now, private-sector insurance plans that senior citizens can use are rare.
Right now, too many of our citizens don't have an insurance policy at all, and those who do are afraid they will lose the one they have - afraid they will get too sick, afraid to stay home and not work full-time, and afraid their benefits will disappear along with their job.
They, too, are turning to private insurance, which offers their citizens greater choice.
Both bills require all citizens to have some form of health insurance.
The Department of Homeland Security needs to verify that people coming into the exchanges are legal citizens, since Obamacare does not offer health insurance subsidies to undocumented residents.
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The government developed the scheme in consultation with the insurance industry, and works by allowing citizens to select coverage from a slate of approved plans.
First, virtually no poor U.S. citizens (defined according to the poverty level) are without health insurance.
Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.
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It says the much higher cost of private treatment is being passed on to the travel insurance companies "or, increasingly, is being billed to the citizens directly".
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And even once the senior citizens are covered, there are still many Americans who don't have health insurance.
She listed essential elements for passing a health care bill, including making coverage more affordable for middle-class Americans, sustaining the solvency of the Medicare program for senior citizens while eliminating a gap in their prescription drug coverage, no deficit increase and holding insurance companies accountable.
Citizens of states whose political leaders decline to establish exchanges will participate in a newly created national insurance exchange administered by the federal government.
Unless Obama Care intends to take over the health insurance industry, and intends to build Federal hospitals, it cannot constitutionally force American Citizens to purchase services from private institutions.
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