Earlier this week Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum said in a conference call with reporters that he had serious constitutional issues with the provision in the recently passed Senate health care bill that would mandate that everyone in the country buy into the program, or face a fine.
The AG's office today says now that McCollum joined up with a dozen other of his colleagues across the country in writing to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on another bone of contention. That being the provision in the Senate bill that provides Nebraska with full and permanent funding to extend Medicaid eligibility to everyone below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. The bill actually requires all states to do so, but Nebraska alone would not be required to pay a portion of the additional cost after 2016.
Read the press release from McCollum's spokeswoman, Sandi Copes
This article appears in Dec 30, 2009 – Jan 5, 2010.