{"id":513817,"date":"2010-04-04T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15693"},"modified":"2010-04-04T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T23:42:16","slug":"indiana-ag-signs-on-to-health-care-lawsuit%e2%80%aa%e2%80%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513817","title":{"rendered":"Indiana AG Signs on to Health Care Lawsuit\u202a\u202a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest attorney general to join a lawsuit aimed at federally mandated health care tells Fox News this is not a political move.<br \/>\nRepublican Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says attorneys general are largely unpolitical and the lawsuit exists \u201cto check\u2026whether the federal government has overextended itself\u201d and \u201cused its authority where it really doesn\u2019t have it.\u201d\u202a<br \/>\nZoeller went on to say, \u201canything that comes out of Washington these days is so hyperpolitical\u201d and isn\u2019t reflective of \u201cwhat\u2019s going on in each of the individual states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nTo date, 15 attorneys general (14 Republicans and 1 Democrat) from states including Washington, Utah, Colorado, Texas and Pennsylvania have joined the lawsuit.\u00a0 Attorneys general getting the most pressure to sign on to the lawsuit hail from states with Republican legislatures that tend to vote Republican in national elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nIn spite of the growing number of attorneys general on board, many legal experts say its unlikely the suit will actually stop the law from taking effect.\u00a0 Some experts believe the major issue is with the constitutionality of health care reform, and whether states have the authority to force taxpayers to purchase health insurance.\u00a0 Those who have already joined the suit hope to see it go to the Supreme Court, where no decision has been made on whether or not the government has the power to mandate health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The latest attorney general to join a lawsuit aimed at federally mandated health care tells Fox News this is not a political move. Republican Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says attorneys general are largely unpolitical and the lawsuit exists \u201cto check\u2026whether the federal government has overextended itself\u201d and \u201cused its authority where it really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}