States Suing Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on April 7, 2010
in In the News
Arizona and Nevada to Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
PHOENIX -- The governors of Arizona and Nevada say their states will join 14 others suing the federal government over health care reform. Gov. Jan Brewer announced Arizona was joining the suit Tuesday night. She signed a bill April 1 that gave her the authority to skirt the state's Democratic attorney general, Terry Goddard, who declined to sue on the state's behalf. Republicans say the bill signed by President Obama is unconstitutional in part because it requires people to buy private health insurance. Goddard and other Democrats say a suit would be unlikely to succeed and thus a waste of taxpayer money. Also Tuesday, Gov. Jim Gibbons signed an executive order for Nevada to join the multistate challenge to the federal legislation. Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, refused an earlier directive from Gibbons to join the suit.
Obama on the Cry for Repeal of the Healthcare Law
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on March 25, 2010
in In the News
FoxNews.com covered a recent speech from President Obama in which he reference the call for repeal of the healthcare law.
Obama Dares Republicans to Pursue Repeal of Health Care Law
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President Obama mocked Republicans’ campaign to try to repeal his new health care law, saying Thursday they should "Go for it" and see how well they fare with voters.
Frankly, they’re likely going to fare pretty well with this Independent, formerly Democrat, voter who voted for Obama in the last election.
A different article from The Hill about the speech in question elaborates on President Obama’s comments.
President Obama to repeal-minded Republicans: ‘Go for it’
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President Barack Obama on Thursday flipped into campaign mode and dared Republicans to repeal the healthcare law.
With his signature agenda item signed into law, Obama switched from selling the bill to aggressively promoting it during a speech in Iowa City, Iowa, the town where Obama announced his healthcare reform agenda as a candidate in 2007.
“This is the reform that some folks in Washington are still hollering about. And now that it’s passed, they’re already promising to repeal it,” Obama said. “They’re actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. Well, I say go for it.”