More States sue over Health Care
Not sure who's running the asylum these days but the politicians sure are making it tougher to figure out the good guys from the bad. It's obvious we dont have leaders anymore, just a bunch of knuckleheads trying to one-up each other as they fight to win (re)election.
We know the health care system is broken but it's a dangerous slope to start legislating mandatory purchase of coverage. Here's the latest in what surely will be a long-running and fruitless campaign to stop a train-wreck.
And so it goes.....five more states are joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging the Obama overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, this according to Florida's attorney general.
The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 18 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorney generals.
It claims the sweeping reform of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system, pushed through by Democrats in the U.S. Congress after months of bitter partisan fighting, violates state-government rights in the U.S. Constitution and will force massive new spending on hard-pressed state governments.
While some legal scholars think the suits will reach the Supreme Court, many agree that the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which puts the powers of the U.S. government above those of the states, will trump the states' arguments.
"We welcome the partnership of Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona as we continue fighting to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens and the sovereignty of our states,'' Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said.
South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho, and South Dakota had previously joined Florida's lawsuit.
