Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage today called for the state to sue the federal government over health care reform.
“I fear the federal program,” he said, noting that in the 1970s he lived in Canada under a universal system. “It’s rationed care. It scares me.”
LePage’s comments came at a forum sponsored by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Southern Maine Chapter. He was joined by the four other candidates on the Nov. 2 ballot: Democrat Libby Mitchell, and independents Eliot Cutler, Shawn Moody and Kevin Scott.
LePage said voters need to send new representatives to the Legislature so it can choose a new attorney general. Maine’s current Attorney General, Janet Mills, is a Democrat who was appointed by Democrats to a two-year term that expires in December. She rejected calls earlier this year to join other states that were challenging the federal law.
“We can join the other 20 states to challenge Obamacare because, quite frankly, I believe it to be unconstitutional,” LePage said.
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