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More States Join Challenge to Health Reform Law

Posted Administrator Account on 4/9/2010

Five more states have announced that they will join others in a legal challenge to the health care reform bill signed into law on March 23. 

Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona will join Texas and 12 other states in a lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern district of Florida.

The attorneys general are pursuing a legal argument that Congress lacks authority to force citizens of states to enter into contracts by purchasing health care insurance.  Additionally, the states are opposing mandates that would require them to share the cost of covering additional Medicaid enrollees. 

“The addition of five new states to our bipartisan legal challenge reflects broad, nationwide concern about the constitutionality of this sweeping and unprecedented federal legislation,”  stated Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.  

“No public policy goal – no matter how important or well-intentioned – can be allowed to trample the protections and rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.”

The five states join Texas, Florida, Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Idaho, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Washington.

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