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Originally Posted by Jess
I am not exactly sure how private businesses can be mandated when we are told that marriage would have to vary from state to state. Not sure if that made sense, but what I am trying to understand is how the government can make rules affecting private business when they supposedly can't even make a federal mandate for gay marriage.
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The government isn't telling them how to run their business. They're telling them that if they want Medicare/Medicade money, these are the rules. It's kinda like when the feds told states that if they wanted federal money for their highways then they had to lower the speed limit. The states didn't have to lower the limit if they didn't want the money.
I think it's a neat way to handle the problem.