From tampabay.com:

A lawsuit challenging the federal health care legislation provoked the most conflict during a forum Friday for Florida’s attorney general candidates.

Republican candidates Holly Bensen and Jeff Kottkamp pledged to continue the lawsuit filed by current Attorney General Bill McCollum against the federal government.

“Access to health insurance is a privilege and personal responsibility,” not a right, Benson said.

McCollum’s suit claims the health care reform rules violate the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution by forcing people to buy health care from a private company or pay a tax or fine.

There are problems with the country’s health care system, Benson said, but the new law doesn’t solve those problems and will make them worse by adding 1.7 million to people to the Medicaid program, sinking it.

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