No to health-care lawsuit, Cooper says
It doesn't make sense for North Carolina to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health-care reform law, Attorney General Roy Cooper said today in a letter to Gov. Bev Perdue.
"The United States Supreme Court has held that duly ratified acts of Congress are presumed to be constitutional and it is clear that Congress has extremely broad authority under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution," Cooper, a Democrat, wrote.
"Health insurance reform and access to health care are policy decisions that should be decided by elected representatives, not by appointed federal judges. There Is ample time for elected representatives to change this legislation since most of the provisions in question will not take effect until the year 2013.
"In the unlikely event that this legal challenge does succeed, any decision will likely affect all of the states, including North Carolina, regardless of whether our state joins."
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