FOXNews.com: South Carolina bill would make it a crime to implement Obamacare

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South Carolina bill would make it a crime to implement Obamacare May 3rd 2013, 02:27 Published May 02, 2013 FoxNews.com The Supreme Court may have ruled Obamacare is constitutional, but implementing the controversial federal law would become a crime in South Carolina if a bill passed by the state House becomes law. The bill, approved Wednesday by the house, declares President Obama's signature legislation "null and void." Whereas the law that Obama pushed and Congress passed is known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, South Carolina's law would be known as the Freedom of Health Care Protection Act, the Washington Times reports. It would "prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article." The Supreme Court ruled last year that Obamacare's underlying provision, requiring all Americans to obtain health insurance, is constitutional, though lawsuits still are pending that argue against certain parts of that mandate -- in particular, contraceptive coverage, which some Christian employers argue violates their religious beliefs. In South Carolina, the nullification bill proceeds to the state Senate for committee review. It would allow the state attorney general to take action against anyone causing harm by the implementation of Obamacare. Parts of ObamaCare already had begun to fray, even before full implementation. The Obama administration now says a special system of exchanges designed to make it easier for small businesses to provide insurance will be delayed an entire year -- to 2015. "Lots of small businesses struggle with providing insurance for their workers so this was supposed to facilitate it and make it easier for small business to do this," Jim Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Fox News last month. "It was a huge portion of the sale job. When they passed the law in 2010 there were many senators and members of Congress who were saying 'I am doing this because it's going to help small businesses.'"

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