E-mails Show Pruitt Weighed In On Healthcare Exchange
Pruitt letter prickles Oklahoma governor’s office
Input from Attorney General Scott Pruitt before 2012 health care decisions called “self serving and political” by Gov. Mary Fallin’s chief of staff.
By Zeke Campfield | Published: April 15, 2013
Gov. Mary Fallin’s office already was avalanched with calls and correspondence urging her to push back against the new federal health care law when she received an important one from the state’s top prosecutor.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt offered no opinion about the Affordable Care Act in his letter; instead, he told the governor that his lawsuit against the federal government could be harmed if she complied with it.
“The lawsuit is predicated … on the fact that the State is not implementing a state-established exchange,” Pruitt wrote, referring to a component of the act that calls for insurance policies to be sold to consumers via an online market. “If the State does implement an exchange, I will have to dismiss the lawsuit.”