Before each session of the lege, members can "pre-file" bills for consideration in the upcoming session.
There are some bragging rights that go with having the first bill, but not much more - generally, the first bill filed doesn't pass (though, on occasion, the idea in that first bill will be put into another measure that does pass).
This year, Rep. Seel, a former member of the Minutemen, an
To whit: the new HB2001, which is almost elegant in its simplicity. Almost.
From the bill, actually, the measure in its entirety -
CHAPTER 23
HEALTH CARE EXCHANGE
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
20-3250. State-based health care exchange; prohibition
THIS STATE MAY NOT ESTABLISH OR ADMINISTER A STATE-BASED HEALTH CARE
EXCHANGE.
The fact that this measure is redundant because Governor Jan Brewer already decided that the state won't establish or administer a state-based health care exchange, leaving it to the federal government, apparently doesn't matter to Seel, nor does the fact that the measure exposes him to charges of hypocrisy - a fervent "states' rights" guy ceding this to the feds? It will be interesting to see how he will twist his professed ideology to reconcile the conflict if/when the bill is the subject of committee consideration.
Wonder if he had to use a pretzel-shaped pen to write this bill?
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Adding the word "state" to the term health care exchange is absolutely no guarantee that the State of Arizona has any control over the entity. I am pretty sure that both Carl Seel and the Obama administration understand this fact.
Anybody who believes otherwise would do well to ask who it is that controls that Arizona National Guard.
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