DeWine to fight health overhaul

[Joanne98]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Republican Mike DeWine was sworn in yesterday as the Ohio attorney general and said his first move in office will be to challenge the federal health-care law.

DeWine narrowly unseated Democrat Richard Cordray in November after vowing to join a multistate lawsuit challenging the requirement that Americans buy health insurance.

DeWine said he expects Florida, which is leading the legal challenge, to petition the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida today to open the case to additional states, including Ohio.

"That was a commitment I made to the people of Ohio," DeWine said after his swearing-in ceremony regarding joining the suit. "I said I was going to act on my first day in office, and that's what I'm going to do."



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