All Republicans vote in favor

If this is not repealed "there will be virtually no activity by a state, a citizen, or a business that the feds would not someday be able to regulate." -- Bob Barr, 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate

From Eric Dondero:

Encouraging news out of Georgia. The State Senate has just passed the Health Care Freedom of Choice Act by an overwhelming margin of 31 to 17. All Republicans voted for the measure. They were joined by only one single Democrat.

The bill was sponsored by members of the Georgia Senate Liberty Caucus, including Sen. Judson Hill of Marietta who called it the "best way to protect Georgians from the Democrat-led Congress' attempt to socialize health care through their public option health care mandate."

From Quarterdeck blog:

Georgia Senator Judson Hill (photo) was joined by 29 other Senate Republicans last Thursday passing legislation protecting Georgians’ rights to choose their own health care. Senator Hill authored Senate Bill 317 and has been working the past year to prohibit any government, state or federal, from forcing its citizens to participate in any health care system.

Under Senate Bill 317 Georgia’s citizens would be protected from being forced by the government to purchase health care.

The Bill now goes on to the House. Republican Governor Sonny Perdue is fully expected to sign the law once it passes the House.

Fmr. Georgia Republican Congressman and 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "States must challenge Health Care law":

Governor Sonny Perdue, for example, worries how the Peach State will fund what he estimates will be an additional billion dollars of Medicaid spending each year. Private companies, which will be subject to numerous mandates by virtue of the law, face daunting fiscal challenges as well.

Governor Perdue has indicated he will pursue a challenge using lawyers other than the state attorney general, [Democrat] Thurbert Baker, who has refused to lend his office and his name to the project. Perdue, unlike Baker, correctly understands the importance of such a lawsuit; for if the federal government is permitted to enforce mandates such as those in this new law, then there will be virtually no activity by a state, a citizen, or a business that the feds would not someday be able to regulate.

For a full list of GA Senate Liberty Caucus members visit GARLC.org