Health Care Reform Lawsuit On Behalf of the People FOXNews
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: You've heard about states suing the federal government over health care, but what if you want to sue government yourself? Turns out a lawyer from Tennessee wants to represent you. Joining us live is Van Irion, Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee.
Good evening, sir. And you have filed -- have you actually filed a lawsuit on behalf of people?
VAN IRION, R - TENN., CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: Hi, Greta. Yes, we have. About a week-and-a-half ago, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of one individual here in Tennessee, and we invited all Tennesseeans to join the lawsuit. Well, within a few days, we were inundated with requests from all over the country if -- from people wanting to join the lawsuit. So we decided that we would let anybody in the United States, any company or citizen, join. And we now have 10,764, I think, as of a few minutes ago.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, I don't want to get into the weeds, but people are going to think it's a, quote, "class-action" because of the number of people. This has not been certified as a class. And at this point, you have one person in court with about 10,000-plus that want to join, is that fair?
So today was a very busy outside of the house day. Most of our gardening done and the Junior Logician is off visiting his grandmother so the Logical Husband and I spent most of the day at the farmers market and walking the dogs and taking pictures of the capital area and basically just enjoying an absolutely splendid early summer day in Utah. As a result, I didn't get to any of my emails until very late today. One of the daily must reads is my electronic version of the New York Times. They honestly do have some decent stories....unless they are reporting on President Obama and then the love fest starts.
Washington PostMorning Fix: Press-ing the Reset ButtonHow come WAPO isn't reporting about the new health plan financing in which medical insurance benefits would be taxed and IT EXEMPTS UNION MEMBERS, WITH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS FROM PAYING TAXES ON THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE? That's right.
