Oklahoma Attorney General Revises Health-Care Lawsuit
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President Barack Obama’s health care reform can be blocked by a state constitutional amendment in Oklahoma declaring residents can’t be forced to buy health insurance, a state official said in a revised lawsuit.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who initially filed a legal challenge to Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in January 2011, asked in a revised complaint yesterday for a federal judge to rule that the part of the law mandating people purchase insurance or face a tax penalty is inoperative in his state.