Is there a reason for why 13 state AGs threaten suit over health care deal?
Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. Sources: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9CUBI9O0.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action. Republican South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and a dozen of his counterparts are sending a letter Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid objecting to Nebraska getting a break on Medicaid payments. McMaster said last week he was leading a charge to probe the constitutionality of the deal he dubbed the “Corn husker Kickback.” Sources: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/30/general-us-health-care-deal-states_7243569.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed,” South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision,” they wrote. In a rare Christmas Eve vote, Senate Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system. The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many
