Berger Urges Cooper to Join Suit Challenging Constitutionality of New Health Care Law

Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper today urging him to join thirteen other Attorneys General across the country in filing a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  The constitutional challenge rests on the argument that the individual mandate by the federal government to citizens forcing them to purchase health care is an unconstitutional overreach of the authority granted to the federal government by the Commerce Clause.

Senator Berger made the following statement:

“We all must do our part to protect North Carolina’s citizens from this 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 and only the Attorney General can file suit on behalf of their interests.  I hope that Attorney General Cooper will do his part to see that the rights and freedoms of North Carolinians are safeguarded at the state level.”

Click here to read Senator Berger’s letter to Attorney General Cooper.

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