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Florida Attorney General McCollum wants states to resist health care bill
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Dec 30, 2009 02:49am |
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| Author | Bill Cotterell |
| Media | Newspaper - Ft Myers News Press |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 07:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 1:10 A.M. — TALLAHASSEE — Attorney General Bill McCollum called on other states’ legal officers Tuesday to review a “tax on living” in the pending federal health-care proposals.
In a conference call with reporters, McCollum also said he might mount a court challenge if the final health package includes a Senate provision requiring the federal government to cover future Medicaid costs in Nebraska. That was added last week for Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who provided the 60th vote needed by President Obama and Senate Democrats to get the plan to a vote.
State Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, accused McCollum, a Republican, of pouncing on the controversy to advance his own campaign for governor. Gelber said McCollum didn’t use his discretion as the state’s chief legal officer to enforce a state constitutional requirement for adequate funding of education, but chose to make a “legal review” of health care because that issue stirs the conservative base among Republicans and independent voters. |
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