Come November, universal health care and universal health insurance plans will be blocked by Arizona state law… if the voters so choose.
Recently, a petition obtained enough signatures to put Proposition 101 on the Arizona ballot, which would effectively prohibit any universal health care programs.
That includes any law which would mandate health care coverage or health insurance.
As Proposition 101 puts it, any law “that restricts a person’s freedom of choice of private health-care systems or private plans of any type, ” reported the Arizona Daily Star.
The proposition, likely to be a part of an ongoing debate, had controversy written all over it before it was even approved for the November ballot.
When the petition was turned into the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, the County Recorder Helen Purcell determined some of the signatures were invalid.
Purcell based her findings on 22 possible invalid signatures that the Recorder’s Office checked. Some of these signatures were dated before the petition came out, some had inconsistent dates with other signatures on a petition sheet.
But a Maricopa Superior Court Judge ruled that the petitions were valid, and the Proposition will be up for approval in November.
As a side note, it’s ironic that Arizona, Senator John McCain’s home state, is trying to block universal health care while Senator Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois is trying to pass it?