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Healthcare | Mandates in current healthcare bills to buy insurance–or face jail time–are raising prospect of civil disobedience and constitutional challenges | Edward Lee Pitts

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David DeGerolamo is mad, and this past April the 53-year-old North Carolinian decided he wasn't going to take it anymore. Since then the Raleigh resident has scaled back on his small drafting and consulting business and poured himself into his new role as an "unpaid fighter for our country."

The source of DeGerolamo's ire: the federal government. He said Washington, D.C., needs to stop. Stop the bailouts that he blames Republicans for starting. Stop the healthcare overhaul that Democrats are pushing.

When the White House earlier this year set up a "facts are stubborn things" website with an email account asking people to send in any healthcare argument that "seems fishy," DeGerolamo turned himself in for his opposition to the ongoing overhaul efforts. He typed his name in bold letters, font-size 72:

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December 05, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 24

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