Incoming House Speaker Dean Cannon is asking all state executive agencies to provide a full accounting of what they have done to comply with the Obama administration’s health care overhaul.
Cannon said in a letter to Governor Charlie Crist that the use of state resources to implement the new health care law “generates the greatest concern.”
In his letter, Cannon noted that a number of state agencies had already begun to put in place measures to implement various aspects of the law.
“Not only are Florida insurance officials helping the federal government to write rules on these matters, but the Office of Insurance Regulation is jumpstarting these new regulatory functions by developing data systems necessary for enforcement,” Cannon wrote. “Although OIR used routine budget mechanisms to commence these actions with federal grant money, the substantive actions must be subject to more thorough legislative scrutiny.”
Republican lawmakers, including Cannon, oppose the new health care law and have backed a federal lawsuit filed by the Attorney General Bill McCollum that challenges the constitutionality of the law.
