Dan Parker on Attorney General Joining in Lawsuit against Health Care Reform

 

For Immediate Release 
March 29, 2009

 

 Indiana Democratic Party Chair Dan Parker on Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announcing that he will join in lawsuit against health care and insurance reform

Calls the initiative frivolous and a waste of tax payer money

 

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Attorney Greg Zoeller announced this afternoon that he will join a lawsuit with 13 other state attorneys general, challenging the legality of the Health Care and Insurance Reform bill recently signed into law by President Barack Obama. Zoeller, along with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels are questioning the constitutionality of requiring people to buy health insurance and the federal government "imposing rules on states" they deem as "violating sovereignty."

Indiana Democratic Party Chair Dan Parker released the following statement: 

"The legal challenges against health care reform taken on by Attorney General Greg Zoeller at the urging of Governor Mitch Daniels are without merit and pure partisan politics. These lawsuits will not be successful."

"It is widely agreed upon by legal scholars that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Period."

"Mitch Daniels and Greg Zoeller are grasping at straws, looking for any way they can to try and obstruct progress. Unfortunately, they are playing politics with the lives and well-being of hard working Hoosier families. This frivolous lawsuit will go nowhere and only waste Indiana tax payer money." 

"The fact of the matter is, health insurance reform is going to help over 820,000 Hoosiers who do not currently have health insurance. Plus 76,800 Indiana small businesses will be provided a tax credit to make premiums more affordable. Not to mention the benefits to Hoosier seniors in helping to close the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole." And the end of appalling insurance practices where Hoosiers are denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition."

"Hoosiers simply can't afford any more delays or obstruction from Mitch Daniels and Greg Zoeller--they want reform implemented now."

 

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