Posted on 07/07/2010 9:08:39 PM PDT by Libloather
Missouri lieutenant governor sues over federal health care law
By JASON NOBLE
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
Posted on Wed, Jul. 07, 2010 10:15 PM
JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder filed a legal challenge in federal court Wednesday against the health care reform law passed by Congress last spring.
The lawsuit raises eight separate issues with the law and asks the court to invalidate several of its measures.
“This lawsuit challenges those provisions of the federal health care law which actually reduce Missourians’ access to affordable health care and which violate our United States and Missouri state Constitutions,” Kinder, a Republican, said in a statement.
Specifically, the suit filed in Cape Girardeau contends that the health care bill is unconstitutional because it could eventually require Missouri to raise taxes. It also challenges mandates requiring individuals to purchase health insurance and reductions to Medicare Advantage, an existing government-sponsored supplemental insurance program for the elderly.
Kinder’s lawsuit also names as plaintiffs a young Republican campaign worker, the widow of the former state commissioner of administration and an elderly St. Louis woman. All claim that their constitutional rights are or could be violated by various elements of the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
You won’t get all the states on board, at least not the Dem/libtard/Progressive run states till their respective populaces wake the frak up and vote these idiotic morons out of office....that won;t hit till they find out that their states will literally go bankrupt trying to pay for the garbage healthcare deemed ObamaCare.....
Why don’t the states band together and just nullify it? They do have that power if they choose to use it.
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