Status of Health Care Reform Repeal
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on January 29, 2012
in In the News
The push for repeal of the health care law passed by the Obama administration is still going on, although right now the Supreme Court ruling is the next thing on the agenda for most folks in the fight against the law.
House Republicans have voted to repeal multiple parts of the law since the passage of the bill, but they have not pushed for a vote on the individual mandate that is such an important part of the law because they don't want to interfere with the Supreme Court ruling. There's a good discussion of this in Health care reform: House GOP waits for Supreme Court from Politico.
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.