Perdue Asks AG to Review Constitutionality of Senate Health Bill ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has asked the state's Attorney General to look into the constitutionality of deals that Senate leadership made to pass a federal health care bill this morning. A handful of other states said they're looking into it, claiming it's unfair that Nebraska and Louisiana, among others, got special treatment.

WABE's Odette Yousef reports.

Perdue sent a letter making the request to Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Wednesday, and awaits an answer. Bert Brantley, Perdue's spokesperson, denies that it's a political move:

BRANTLEY: This is not a partisan issue. If you look at the Governor of Tennessee, for example, who's a Democrat, he called this "the mother of all unfunded mandates."

Brantley says the bill will greatly increase costs, by expanding Medicaid, and would also force Georgians' to bear a few other states' burdens.

He says Nebraska is the most egregious example of the deal-making, where Senator Ben Nelson got full federal coverage for his state's Medicaid expansion into perpetuity, in return for voting for the bill.

Odette Yousef, WABE News.
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