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"We're not gonna be in this alone," said Otter. "There's gonna be many other states ... in this with us. I think to protect the people of Idaho, which is one of our first obligations as a government, it's the right thing to do."
"This is a classic example of politics coming before patients," said [David Irwin]. "It stands little chance, if any, of standing up in court. $100,000 is not going to go very far when you're fighting a case in the Supreme Court. We don't know how this legislation is going to act with existing federal laws, or how it's going to interact with the health-reform bill, we don't know how it's going to interact with current state laws.""They're doing this for political reasons. So many of these bills have constitutional flaws, and they pass anyway," said [Kate Kelly]. "Day after day we're forced to pass these resolutions that may be unconstitutional. The defense is always, 'it's an election year ... the people want this to pass ...' Well, that's not the way we should be legislating."See the full content of this document
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Lines in the Sand
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter stood before members of the press last week in his ceremonial office to sign the (so-called) Idaho Health Freedom Act. House Bill 391 moved through the Legislature this month on strictly party-line votes. With Otter's signature, the bi...
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