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States appeal health care to high court
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 

Ohio and 25 other states have joined to challenge President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. 

The states, along with the National Federation of Independent Businesses, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Atlanta appeals court decision that declared one provision unconstitutional, but upheld the rest of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

In announcing the appeal, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called the law “an affront on Americans’ individual liberty.” 

The challenge asks that the high court review three things: whether the entire act must fail because its centerpiece – the mandate that every person purchase insurance – is unconstitutional; whether the federal government can force the states to administer and fund a substantial expansion of Medicaid or risk all of their Medicaid funding; and whether the federal government can require states to give state employees a federally mandated level of health insurance coverage. 

The law was passed by Congress and signed by Obama last year as a way to reduce increasing health care costs while affording more Americans coverage. 

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