Calif. Gop Urges Suit Over Health Care Overhaul
Republican state senators called on California Attorney General Jerry Brown Tuesday to join other states and sue the federal government over health care reform.
The legislators said Congress cannot force people to buy health insurance or any other products.
Attorneys general in 13 other states have already filed suit against the health care overhaul that President Barack Obama signed into law. The bill will require most Americans to carry health insurance.
“I think that many Californians share the same view that this is the greatest expansion of government in a generation,” said Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murrieta.
State Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach, sent the letter to Brown.
“The federal government is limited in what it can and can’t do by the Constitution,” Harman said, calling the measure a violation of the commerce clause.
Brown issued a statement saying he had instructed his deputies to review the claims made by the senators.
However, Brown, a Democrat and former two-term governor, noted that all but one of the 13 attorneys general who vowed legal action were Republicans.
“Health care is not the place, with people’s lives at stake, to engage in poisonous partisanship,” Brown said in the statement.
Republicans seeking their party’s nomination for governor, Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, opposed the health care package and supported a state lawsuit.
Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, said consumers could face higher health insurance premiums and an onerous mandate to get health insurance whether they want it or not.
Whitman campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei called the health care plan a “new, big government program.”
The Republican lawmakers also decried what they called an unfunded mandate, estimating the plan would cost California taxpayers $3 billion.
Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks, said voters should have final approval over the measure.
“It’s clear to me that people’s voices are not being heard in Washington, D.C., or in Sacramento,” Strickland said. “At a time when we a have high unemployment rate, this is going to be devastating to our California economy.”
The California Democratic Party said the health care overhaul will provide insurance coverage to 7.3 million Californians who do not currently have it and give a tax credit to some 390,000 small businesses in the state.
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