AG seeks to add Maine to health care suit
Maine's new attorney general is working to include Maine in a Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health care reform act.
William Schneider has asked the state of Florida to file a court motion to allow Maine to join the federal lawsuit pending there, according to a press release from the attorney general's office. Five other states are looking to join in the lawsuit, and 20 other states, Florida included, are already listed as plaintiffs. Schneider said in the release that the court will likely decide within several weeks whether to allow the six states to join the lawsuit. He also said that joining the lawsuit would have a negligible cost for Maine. Former Attorney General Janet Mills previously said joining the suit would cost taxpayers as much as $400,000.
The lawsuit challenges the provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires individuals to buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty.
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