Missouri Lt. Governor’s Race Issue, Who Hates the Healthcare Law the Most?

A tough primary fight has two Missouri Republicans taking different approaches to the latest GOP resistance to the President’s health care overhaul law.
Thursday, challenger St. senator Brad Lager called for a special session of the legislature to deal with the Affordable HealthCare Act.
many Republicans call it ‘Obamacare’.
His primary opponent, incumbent Lt. Governor Peter Kinder says he’ll file a lawsuit over the matter.
The battle is over the language of a November ballot issue inMissouri.
The proposal asks for voters how they want healthcare exchanges to be formed. An exchange would organize uninsured Missouri in to a group in order to purchase health insurance collectively.
A law passed by the legislature this year would require any such move, or federal money for such a move, to be approved by the Republican-controlled legislature.
Kinder, Lager, and many others in the GOP don’t like how Democratic Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is describing the measure on the ballot.
“It reads: “Shall Missouri law be amended to deny individuals, families, and small businesses the ability to access affordable health care plans through a state-based health benefit exchange unless authorized by statute, initiative or referendum or through an exchange operated by the federal government as required by the federal health care act?
” “To use the very active verb ‘deny’ individuals, families and small businesses the ability to access affordable healthcare plans is outrageously biased,” Kinder told reporters Thursday.
He says he may file his suit as early as Friday.
Kinder formed a non-profit group in 2010 to challenge the healthcare law.
The Lt. governor’s primary opponent, Lager dismissed the Kinder effort, according to the Kansas City Star.
““Politically motivated lawsuits and high-priced lawyers are not going to solve the problems in our state. What we really need is for our state’s elected officials to get to work and lead”, Lager said.
Thursday Lager called on Missouri’s Democratic Governor Jay Nixon, to call a special session to deal with the healthcare law and it’s impact onMissouri.
Lager says if Nixon, the Democrat won’t call the session, the. GOP leadership in the legislature should call lawmakers back.
Kinder fired back during his news conference.
The Star reports Kinder called this strategy “wholly irrelevant,” contending that it would only result in political grandstanding during an election year without actually accomplishing anything meaningful.
A spokesman for the Democratic Secretary of State, Carnahan says the wording of the question on the ballot is fair and is legal.