NC won't join health care lawsuit

[ccharles000]

Attorney General Roy Cooper said Friday that North Carolina will not join 13 other states in challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare overhaul recently passed by Congress.

Cooper said it was unlikely that such a lawsuit would succeed, and that there is plenty of time for Congress to make any changes in the law before the most contested provisions in the new law take effect in 2013, Rob Christensen reports.

"After careful consideration, I have concluded that North Carolina will not join this lawsuit," Cooper wrote in a letter Gov. Bev Perdue. (Click below for letter.)

Cooper's decision came as little surprise. The health care overhaul has been debated along partisan lines and was pushed through a Democratic-controlled Congress by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Republican leaders in North Carolina had pressured Cooper and Perdue, both Democrats, to support joining the lawsuit, challenging the health care law soon after its passage.

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/nc_wont_join_health_care_lawsuit

[Kookaburra]

1. Cooper's a Democrat

so I doubt he'd be very helpful in getting NC into the lawsuit. I can't believe we've finally emerged from the dark ages (or at least we're in the process).

Plus the republican loudmouths in NC are pretty much a joke with their ridiculous antics.

[ncteechur]

2. Today's News and Observer (Raleigh) has Wake County BOE member and teabagger #1 on the front page.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/16/439303/tea-partys-values-lauded-by-tedesco.html

[Kdillard]

3. The people of NC should be happy that he is not wasting their money.

[appal_jack]

4. I love sweet Carolina!

It's good to be a citizen of NC.

Very glad to hear that AG Cooper made the rational choice, saving tax $$$, and also allowing HC coverage to expand here (even though I was a single payer supporter, I'll take this bill over anything the tea-baggers have offered...)

-app