Posts Tagged ‘Florida’
Obamacare, Insurers, and Children
One of the biggest successes for Obama and his healthcare plan, was to mandate all insurers to allow parents to keep their children on their policies until age 26. However, there a few problems associated with that idea. In Florida, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has said that in his state UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children individually, and in Oklahoma a couple of insurers have done the same. hotair.com
School District Sued for Banning Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
The Collier County School District in Florida, for many years, had allowed a Christian group to distribute Bibles free, to students who were interested during off school hours. On January 16 of this year, World Changers of Florida, was told they could no longer do that. The school board told them the Bibles have no educational value, so the group is suing the district.
The school board and superintendent “have denied World Changers access for no other reason than the religious content and viewpoint of the literature it wishes to distribute, specifically Bibles,” the lawsuit contends. “This unequal treatment, based upon the religious nature of the literature World Changers wishes to distribute, is unconstitutional content-based discrimination, because World Changers’ materials otherwise fit within the parameters Defendants set for the forum. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing World Changers said the group has to sue, to protect the right simply to make free Bibles available to students in public schools.
Yet the school allowed other secular organizations to distribute literature but prevented World Changers from doing so even though it complied with all of the school’s guidelines. The lawsuit is asking the court to declare the school’s actions unconstitutional and requests legal fees and unspecified nominal damages. The school district hasn’t commented on the lawsuit.
FL Gov Crist says Immigration Reform can help Rebuild Social Security
Governor Crist of Florida, who until last month was running for the Senate as a Republican, until he switched to Independent, has come up with an idea on how we can rebuild the Social Security coffers – we should provide a path to citizenship to illegals, and that will help keep social security solvent. He likes this idea better than what his opponent has suggested, raising the age until one is allowed to retire.
Crist believes there area bout 14 million illegal immigrants now in the country in what is called the “underground economy”. He suggests that if they paid into social security, the worker to retiree ratio would be increased.
