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Florida Challenge
Yet another challenge to the federal health care law came before a federal court in Florida yesterday, and if the partisan track record is any indication, it could prove another legal loss for the Obama administration. Republican-appointed U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in Florida Thursday in a lawsuit brought by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the national health-care law. The case follows on the heels of a ruling Monday by a judge in Virginia that the very idea of an insurance mandate is unconstitutional. With 20 attorneys generals backing it, this is the most high profile and politically charged of the approximately two-dozen cases currently working their way through state and federal courts around the country. The case again goes after the constitutionality of mandates but also challenges the federal government on an old-fashioned states' rights issue, the 20 states objecting to the reform law's overhaul of Medicaid which the states argue amounted to the federal government coercing states to participate. From states rights to constitutional issues, will healthcare reform actually be implemented?
Filed On Behalf Of 20 States
What makes the Florida case different is that the lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 20 states. It's also the first court challenge to the new law's requirement that Medicaid be expanded to cover Americans with incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level (about $14,000 in 2010 for someone living alone). That Medicaid expansion has unleashed a series of protests from some states that contend the expansion will overwhelm their already-overburdened budgets.