Florida files ObamaCare lawsuit

Florida has filed a lawsuit charging the Obama administration is trying to force it to expand Medicaid under ObamaCare.

Kicking off a legal battle involving both Medicaid expansion and a separate pot of federal funding for hospitals, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

The lawsuit was threatened last week by Gov. Rick Scott, who accuses the administration of trying to coerce him into expanding Florida's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act — something he and many other Republican governors have so far refused to do.

Scott contends officials are pressuring him by threatening to halt an existing flow of federal funds used to reimburse hospitals for caring for uninsured patients.

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