Florida Loses Health Care Challenge
As we’ve discussed previously, several states are suing the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
One such state was Florida, which planned to include a referendum on the November ballot that would have potentially overridden PPACA’s mandatory health insurance provisions. In a victory for supporters of the law, the state’s supreme court ruled 5-2 to exclude the initiative from the ballot.
The court ruled that the proposed referendum “contains misleading and ambiguous language” and thus it struck it from the ballot. The court especially objected to the inclusion of language such as “mandates that don’t work,” calling it the “type of political rhetoric that this court has condemned in other cases.”
Lots of other states have lots of other lawsuits pending on this issue. Click here for a handy summary and stay tuned for more.