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Schock, IL Congressional Delegation, Urge Illinois to Challenge the Job Destroying Health Care Law

Washington, Jan 20 -

Congressman Aaron Schock (IL-18) authored with the majority of the Illinois Congressional delegation a letter today to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asking her to join with the other 26 Attorneys General in the multistate lawsuit that has been filed challenging the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

“Last year, I organized a similar effort to encourage Attorney General Madigan to join with the other AG’s, at the time, in challenging the Constitutionality of the current Health Care Reform law,” said Schock. “Since then 26 states have come together in questioning the legality of this law, and it’s past time Illinois joined in.”

In the letter sent today, Schock noted the upcoming one year anniversary of the law’s enactment and since then the legal rulings rebuking many of the provisions of the health care law.  In the most recent example, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson noted ‘the unchecked expansion of congressional power…would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers.’

In addition to the government overreach many of the letter’s co-signers expressed as a major concern, the effect of the expansion of Medicaid to a state’s budget that is already in turmoil is front and center on their minds.  Illinois state lawmakers were recently forced to raise the state income tax 66%, in an attempt to close a budget shortfall. Many believe the expansion of another unfunded mandate is the wrong message to send, and that other ways should be explored before digging a deeper financial hole.

“Just this week the House voted to repeal the Health Care reform law, and I would urge my colleagues on the Senate side to repeal it as well,” said Schock. “When you have 26 states, over half the country, questioning the legality and blatant government overreach of this current law, then its more than past time to do something about it. The vote in the House this week was more than a symbolic gesture, it’s a clear sign people are fed up with the way things used to be run in Washington.”

In March of 2010, Schock, along with others from the Illinois Congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General Madigan requesting that she add Illinois as a party to the multistate lawsuit against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care law. To read the March 2010 letter, click here.

To view a copy of the letter sent today to Attorney General Madigan, click here.