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The conservative comeback in the House of Representatives, coupled with loud threats by Senate Republicans to repeal recently enacted national health-care reform legislation, promises to give new life to the long-standing debate over allowing health insurance companies to sell policies across state lines.

Georgia has now joined nineteen other states that have filed a lawsuit against the new healthcare reform laws that were passed earlier this year by Congress.

Gov. Sonny Perdue named Frank C. Jones the pro bono Special Attorney General to direct Georgia’s participation in challenging health care reform recently passed by Congress.

Legislation to impose new taxes on metro Atlanta hospitals will likely be a flash point in the upcoming General Assembly session as Georgia grapples with a ballooning Medicaid shortfall.