Governor Parnell: Alaska Will NOT Implement ObamaCare

From an AP story in the Anchorage Daily News:

JUNEAU -- Gov. Sean Parnell took a defiant stand Thursday against the federal health care overhaul Congress passed last year, declaring that he will refuse to implement a law he views as blatantly unconstitutional ... in Parnell’s view the decision by a federal district judge in Florida, striking down the law as unconstitutional, “is the law of the land, as it pertains to Alaska.”

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“The state of Alaska will not pursue unlawful activity to implement a federal health care regime that has been declared unconstitutional by a federal court,” Parnell told the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, to applause, Thursday.

Parnell said the state will pursue lawful, market-based solutions of its own. That includes looking at the potential for a health insurance exchange without the “shiny but poisonous apple” of federal dollars and mandates “that create federal dependency and control.”

He faced a Friday deadline for applying for federal funds to help set up an exchange and faced pressure from seven Democratic state senators to do so. He refused.

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