What Rights Is Attorney General Bill McCollum Protecting?

Attorney General Bill McCollum wants to be Governor.   But first he wants to stop health care reform before it ever gets started.

McCollum is suing the federal government to supposedly “protect the rights of the American people.”

Just what rights is McCollum suing to protect?

In Florida, more than a third of the state's 19- to 24-year-olds are uninsured.  The new health care reform law provides them with access to health care coverage by enabling parents to keep adult children on their health insurance plans up to age 26.

So what right is it that McCollum is protecting for these 19- to 24 year-olds?

It must be the right to have no health care.

And the health care reform law prohibits health insurance companies from dropping someone from their coverage when they get sick.

So what right is it that McCollum is protecting by looking to stop health care reform?

It must be the right for health insurance companies to drop patients who are sick.

The health care reform law also makes sure that insurance companies cannot exclude coverage to people with a pre-existing condition by providing these patients access to high-risk pools.

So what right is it that McCollum is looking to protect?

It must be the right for the millions with pre-existing conditions to remain unable to obtain health care coverage.

If these are the rights McCollum wants to protect as Attorney General, the question isn’t whether he should be Governor.

The real question should be – why was he ever elected Attorney General?

Posted by Bernie Campbell on Monday, March 29, 2010
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