The ink from the President’s signature was barely dry when Florida attorney general Bill McCollum filed a lawsuit claiming the $940 billion healthcare reform law is unconstitutional. McCollum led the charge in the first suit against the new law. Joining Florida were attorneys general from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho and South Dakota. Virginia’s attorney general filed a separate lawsuit on similar grounds. “This lawsuit should put the federal government on notice that Florida will not permit the constitutional rights of our citizens and the sovereignty of our state to be ignored or disregarded,” the words of attorney general McCollum.
He also claims Florida cannot afford to do what the bill would mandate the state to do. But now four democratic governors are asking the federal courts for permission to testify against their own states’ attorneys-general in the healthcare reform lawsuit. The governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado and Washington say they disagree with their respective top lawyers. The four governors say they would present data that show potential benefits for their states when the law takes effect. Those include financial benefits derived from the reduction in the number of people who have no health insurance.
But even while the lawsuit goes on, the health care law is stating to be implemented across the land. Social security recipients may have been the first to get notices of changes to their health insurance. The lawsuits may go all the way to the Supreme Court. But unless the states can find a fast way to get the lawsuit there, it maybe too late to stop healthcare reform from going into effect.
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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