Reply #206: PA ALEC Healthcare Campaign Outed Rep Matt Baker (R-Tioga) HB 42

[Hector Solon]

... details in this posting:
http://www.verifyanswer.com/life/health/2011/04/11/pennsylvania-health-insurance-house-bill-targets-health-coverage-requirement-easy-to-insure-me/

The Republican-sponsored bill passed the House Health Committee on a party line vote, 14-9.

Democrats criticized the bill as a violation of the U.S. Constitution that will do nothing to help more people afford health insurance, but committee Chairman Matt Baker, R-Tioga, said the bill, if it becomes law, will give Pennsylvania more legal avenues to challenge the federal law in court.

A number of states are taking up challenges. The one advanced by Baker is based on a model version written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that promotes limited government.

Six states _ Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri and Louisiana _ already have enacted laws similar to the one Baker advocates, according to the council’s tally, while Oklahoma and Arizona each have enacted constitutional amendments.

The Health Committee did not hold a hearing on the bill, which Baker entitled the “Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act,” and Republicans rejected a Democratic effort to table the bill in favor of holding hearings on it.

Another Pennsylvania ALEC member bio up this weekend:
State Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf (R-Montgomery/Bucks)
http://www.montgomerycountygop.com/pages/teamstate_greenleaf.php

Have ALEC members list collections HERE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/01/962412/-UPDATED:-American-Legislative-Exchange-Council-(ALEC)-Releases-FULL-Donor-and-Membership-Lists

No DRILL DOWN seen yet on bigger list PA ALEC members as of yet.