Berger Calls on Perdue to Protect Citizens’ Rights

Urges Her to Support Health Care Protection Act

Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) sent a letter to Governor Perdue today urging her to support the Health Care Protection Act which legislative Republicans will file in the short session of the General Assembly.  The Health Care Protection Act will protect citizens’ rights to make their own health care decisions by exempting them from federal mandates to purchase health insurance that are a part of the new federal health care law and also exempting North Carolinians from any penalties they would face by refusing to purchase health insurance. 

Earlier this week, Senator Berger reaffirmed Republicans’ commitment to filing the Health Care Protection Act in the short session.  Yesterday, Senator Berger sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper asking him to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the mandates contained in the new health care law.  A recent Rasmussen poll found that 51 percent of likely voters support North Carolina’s participation in the suit.

Senator Berger made the following statement:

“The Health Care Protection Act is a common sense initiative designed to protect North Carolinians from an unprecedented and unconstitutional expansion of federal power being handed down in the form of health care mandates.  North Carolina citizens should have the right to make their own health care decisions protected at the state level.  By making clear to her Democratic colleagues in the General Assembly that she supports this legislation, Governor Perdue will make it much more likely that we will receive a fair hearing and an up-or-down vote on the bill.”

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