Lawsuit Challenges President Obama’s Health Care Overhaul

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...More than 300 lawmakers from 17 states, including nearly 60 from Kentucky, have signed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. An attorney for the libertarian Cato Institute will file the suit Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawmakers contend that Congress violated the Constitution’s commerce clause by compelling people to purchase insurance, and Congress has no right to force people to engage in commerce. The 2010 health care reform law aims to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans through measures that include expanding Medicaid and requiring individuals to buy health insurance.