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Texas Attorney General escalate case against Obama's health care bill
by Joseph Ernest December 14, 2010
Newscast Media -- The controversial health care bill that expands the federal government's role in health care is being met with more resistance by Texas and 20 other states, including Florida, that have signed on to the lawsuit filed in Pensacola to overturn it. Should the cases hit a snag in U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson's courtroom this Thursday, escalation to the Supreme Court is expected.
The states that filed the lawsuits argue that forcing people to have health coverage is unconstitutional, and that the health care law violates state's rights guaranteed in the Constitution by imposing massive forced spending for expanded health programs. Despite being pressured by the Justice Department to dismiss the bulk of the Florida lawsuit, Vinson has stood his ground and refused to grant them their requests.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, responding to a suit brought by Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, struck down a provision in
the health care act requiring people to carry a minimum amount of
health care coverage whether they choose to or not. Without the
provision and the revenue it would generate, the rest of the plan would
collapse.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who was among the first to sign on to the legal challenge to the health care act, said, "There are limits to congressional power, and Congress has overstepped its limits here by forcing Americans to purchase health insurance, even against their will. No public policy goal, no matter how important or well-intentioned, can be allowed to trample the protections and rights guaranteed by our Constitution."
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