From DesMoinesRegister.com:

The three Republicans running for governor want to steer Iowa toward the column of states pushing to overturn key aspects of the new federal health care law.

They differ slightly in approach, which could come up today in their first debate. But all three break sharply on the issue with Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat who wholeheartedly endorses the federal law. Democrats pushed the new health care law through Congress, and President Barack Obama, also a Democrat, signed it.

States face a steep climb in exerting authority to reject parts of the law, even if Iowa voters sweep into office elected representatives supporting that view, constitutional scholars say.

An Iowa governor has little authority on the issue, other than to use his office to advocate. The elected official with the real say in whether the state should sue in an attempt to opt out of the law is Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat who has ruled out a court challenge. His Republican challenger this fall, Brenna Findley, has said she would file a lawsuit if elected.

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