Wisconsin adds to heat on healthcare law

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Reuters:

(Reuters) - Republican moves to unravel the healthcare plan championed by President Barack Obama advanced on Monday, with Wisconsin officially joining a multi-state lawsuit against the reform law.

Meanwhile, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, who now constitute the majority, said they would vote to repeal the healthcare law on January 12.

Wisconsin's new Republican Governor Scott Walker had pledged to join the lawsuit within days of winning office in November's election where Obama's reform of the $2.5 trillion healthcare industry was a contentious issue.

The 20 states, led by Florida, say a requirement that all individuals buy medical insurance oversteps constitutional limits on federal authority. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson, who heard testimony in the case in December, said he planned to make a decision quickly.

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Can you tell our new Republican governor was sworn in today?

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"This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from over-passing their constitutional limits by a certain rival-ship, which will ever subsist between them." --Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788