Small business lobby joins challenge to health law

After a lot of opposition from various states and bodies, the healthcare reform has found another one standing against it—the most influential small business lobby of the nation, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), is joining a court challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The argument put forth is that Americans cannot be required to obtain insurance coverage under the Constitution. Though at the same time, the administration argues that the coverage requirements rest on a solid constitutional foundation—the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

20 state attorneys general and governors have filed a federal lawsuit against the healthcare reform bill. The National Federation of Independent Business will join this lawsuit. It is clear that NFIB's involvement would ensure that constitutional arguments for overturning the health care law will be extensively aired in the fall campaigns. Given the number of members that NFIB boosts, 350,000 members to be precise, there is going to be significant impact of such a group of local activists.

There are whole lot of activities going on against or pro to the healthcare reform bill. All this is making it interesting and intriguing. As residents of the US, do you feel concerned or involved enough so as to take a peep into?