New Law Means Idaho Sues Feds if Health Reform Is Enacted

Idaho’s Republican governor signed into law today a bill that requires the state’s attorney general to sue the federal government if health-care reform is enacted that mandates coverage for individuals or business. “I put a real high priority on the sovereignty of the state of Idaho,” Butch Otter says, and, despite a budget deficit, is “comfortable” with court costs that might surpass $100,000, the Spokane Spokesman Review reports.
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