George LeMieux, GOP Senate Candidate, Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Against 'Obamacare'

President Obama's health care plan is the target of a lawsuit that the Supreme Court will consider in March.

Former Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.), has added his name to an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against President Barack Obama's health care plan, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

LeMieux filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Congress acted improperly in passing the health care bill. The conservative Heritage Foundation and several other organizations also joined the amicus brief. The court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case in March.

LeMieux, who hopes to challenge incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) for his seat, faces a GOP primary against Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and businessman Mike McCalister. Mack currently has a lead in the polls.

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Comments

[cdecisneros]

03:26 PM on 02/16/2012

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, the state took in and use $119,000,000.00 from the affordable heathcare act or as it was originally called"Romneycare." Hypocrit much?!?!?

[jmamusic]

11:24 AM on 02/16/2012

Plain and Simple...Both Obama AND ObamaCare need to GO...As quickly as possible and by any means possible...They are both crippling and bankrupting the Country...ObamaCare WILL NOT provide anything even vaguely resembling quality health care...It is just another Obama-Scam to try to buy votes via more of his false promises. Additionally, the Country will NOT be able to afford ObamaCare...The egregious cost of ObamaCare will be paid on the backs of the remaining working, taxpaying population and will rob them of their earnings.
Wake-Up America...Obama is a snake-oil peddler and must be eliminated before he poisons all of America...ABO !!!...

[gilbskg]

11:35 AM on 02/16/2012

"by any means possible" "must be eliminated"

Stunning. Hate to break it to you, Sparky, but your going to seeing a President Barack Obama all the way to 2016. And you might want to be more judicious in your choice of words.

[skeakins]

11:47 PM on 02/28/2012

Fanned and Faved! Supreme Court must overturn mandated Obamacare bill and Obama must be voted out before he can do any more damage to the US.

[hank101]

11:23 AM on 02/16/2012

We all remember George. (Fl Native) and he would file a suite aginst George if it would get him
elected....what a phoney.

[tokyomk]

02:14 PM on 02/16/2012

So much for proofreading before posting, eh?!

[hank101]

06:09 PM on 02/16/2012

Is that the usual Bagger deflection, spelling..I know home schooling is a handicap but keep trying.

[DRouss3977]

10:14 AM on 02/16/2012

Georgie enjoys the fruit of his short Senate career with his taxpayer-funded health care and a pension. He did nothing while in the Senate except vote lock step with the right wingnuts. Just another GOP/TP hack.

[legitane]

09:47 AM on 02/16/2012

Newt Gingrich admitted to Bill Clinton that if Democrats ever passed a comprehensive healthcare bill, the Republicans would be out in the cold for the next 20 years.. ( Clinton's first book)
Newt was prophetic....

[mrsm00the]

07:39 AM on 02/18/2012

Yeah. Look at the beating the Republicans took in the 2010 elections as proof.

[emma richmond]

07:55 AM on 02/16/2012

Well we guess another Republican added to the Inside Trading, this is how most of the Republicans, and some Democrats got Rich, doing the Health Care bill they was selling Infromation, they was meeting with lobbyists sent by the Hedge Funds to buy information, they was bought before they was sent Washington by the people who voted for them to go to Washington to fix things, after getting there they did a Switch and Bait. Now you see all these Senators and Congreman trying to get on the Money Train.

What so amazing all these People whining over the Health Care, if it's so Bad, why do these guys whine about not getting they health Care on time, in 2011 we had new Senators and Congressman whining, because they had to wait until they insurance take affect, while in the same breath they trying to take away from the Middle Class and the Poor, that's the Old Evil at work. These Republicans are the Evil and Hateful people you have seen. All that come back to bite.

[skeakins]

11:52 PM on 02/28/2012

Since there are more wealthy Democrats in Congress than there are Republicans...guess the Dem's took greater advantage. Fire them!

[movingman64]

07:52 AM on 02/16/2012

But yet I am sure he enjoys his socialized healthcare he gets free from the government, along with his socialized pension he gets paid for by the government!

[jrwest78]

11:47 AM on 02/16/2012

most people that work enjoy the same perks...

are you mad that Wal-Mart hasn't looked out for you yet...?

[movingman64]

03:13 PM on 02/16/2012

they don't get them for a life time when they are no longer employed there....and I am sure you are on www.peopleof walmart.com.....I live in a very wealthy community, so I am not familiar with your home away from home walmart!

[1differentdrummer]

06:18 AM on 02/16/2012

Of course it must be defeated. It regulates what insurance companies do to us and makes them pay legitimate claims they once refused. Can't have that.

[JHA in Texas]

06:09 AM on 02/16/2012

.

In 1993, Peter Ferrara was a refugee from the failed Bush Administration and also worked for President Reagan. He was the Heritage Foundation John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy.

There he discovered the wonders of Heritage health plan, devised to stop the Hillary health plan. Except that it followed the outlines of the Hillary plan far too closely. Worse, where it differed, it was destined to fail politically.

For example, the Hillary plan was based on an employer mandate, requiring employers to buy the health insurance plan for their workers the government specified they must buy. The Heritage plan was based on an individual mandate, requiring each worker to buy the health insurance plan the government specified they must buy. So issue was framed as who should have to buy the health insurance, the employer as the Hillary plan required, or the worker, as Heritage plan required. Not winning issue for the Heritage plan.

Another key difference was that the health insurance plan Hillary would require the employer to buy would be broad generous plan covering everything. But the health insurance plan Heritage would require the worker to buy would be cheap bare bones basic plan. So the issue was framed as which do you want: broad, generous health coverage paid by the employer, or cheap, bare bones coverage paid by the worker? It seemed more like the Heritage plan was designed to fail politically.



http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/21/heritage-and-the-individual-ma

[JHA in Texas]

06:14 AM on 02/16/2012

Why are the GOP so opposed to their own plan! Come on GOP quit lying to the American people confess your brain trust Heritage Foundation came of this individual mandate plan! Much like your other policies, Paul Ryans Budget Plan - "Path To Prosperity", which was designed to end MEDICARE as we know it. Stop lying and just be straight with voters, voters appreciate honesty!

[MaybeMilo]

05:02 AM on 02/16/2012

"Slams"

"Rips"

"Blasts"

Here's a new word for you: "thesaurus."

[uncle george]

04:57 AM on 02/16/2012

The attitude of the conservatives to the OBama health care plan at first was understandable Later it was questionable .Then it became annoying and after that it brcame political It no longer had any thing to do with health care. And as time goes on it just became BORING with a capital B. It should be the right of any great society that all of its citizen have the
that it needs among which is health.and the care of that health.Money helped bring our society together. It now seems that it is the thing that is tearing it apart.We now are more interested in the individual rather than the common good.Democracy as a whole cannot survive under the rule of selfishness and greed.

[kbella]

11:36 PM on 02/15/2012

The Heritage Foundation - what a bunch of disgusting hypocrites. They were touting the insurance mandate in the 90s. What changed? Couldn't be that they couldn't stand to see a Democratic President take on health care reform?

[Gestas]

11:29 PM on 02/15/2012

If all you want is some attention...Go Birther....The really Crazy ones love that talk.

[gil87i]

11:09 PM on 02/15/2012

Among all developped nations US is only one without universal Health Insurance.
50millions of Americans are without H. I.
US spend twice as much than any other nation,but 61%of the money are not used for patient
care.Life expectancy is not the highest in US.

[Sabrae]

02:27 AM on 02/16/2012

That's because the mark-up is commonly 400%.

When we start capping fees, we'll see affordable healthcare.

[Jack Starr]

02:51 AM on 02/16/2012

Right and out of the 32 industrialized nations every one of them tried private insurance and found it didn't work and they were all way ahead of us in going to universal insurance.

[whirlpool]

10:56 PM on 02/15/2012

RETHUGICARE here we come -- where the bishop makes your health care decisions relieving you of the responsibility.