Marco Rubio Launches Constitutional Amendment Against Obama's Health-Care Law

On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is considered one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls in 2016, called for a constitutional amendment to push back against President Barack Obamas federal health-care law.

Rubio is drawing on the conservative movement to support his proposed amendment which supporters have dubbed the Right to Refuse Amendment. Right-of-center organizations supporting Rubios proposal include Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the R Street Institute, American Commitment, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU).

The text of Rubios proposed amendment, which is being sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., in the House, is Congress shall make no law that imposes a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services which takes direct aim at the mandated benefits enacted by the law.

Obamacare is a disastrous policy that is not only destructive to job creation, it will also unleash the corrupt and scandal-ridden IRS on taxpayers simply for not buying health insurance, said Rubio on Tuesday. We should put our faith in the American people to decide what goods and services they want to buy, not have Congress dictate it and have the IRS empowered to harass Americans to make sure they do it. Lets do everything we can to keep the IRS out of our health care and stop future Congresses from forcing private citizens to spend their hard-earned money on products or services Washington is forcing on them.

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