10 States Sue Biden Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

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A coalition of 10 states led by Missouriโ€™s attorney general on Nov. 10 sued President Joe Biden over his administrationโ€™s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.

A federal court has blocked, for now, the administrationโ€™s private employer vaccine mandate, although a stricter one focused on health care workers remains in place.

The health care worker mandate, which covers more than 17 million nurses and others, doesnโ€™t include a testing opt-out.

The coalition says the mandate is unlawful under federal law in part because the federal government is trying to wrest away compulsory vaccination power that has โ€œalways been the province ofโ€”and still properly belongs toโ€”the states.โ€

โ€œVaccination requirements are matters that depends on local factors and conditions. Whatever might make sense in New York City, St Louis, or Omaha could be decidedly counterproductive and harmful in rural communities like Memphis, Missouri or McCook, Nebraska,โ€ the 58-page filing in federal court in Missouri states.

โ€œFederalism allows states to tailor such matters in the best interests of their communities. The heavy hand of CMSโ€™s nationwide mandate does not. This court should thus set aside that rule as unlawful agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act.โ€

The mandate is poised to exacerbate an already โ€œalarming shortageโ€ of health care workers, the coalition said. As proof, they cite Dr. Randy Tobler, the CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Missouri. He said that people working in his hospital told him that if the mandate takes effect, they wonโ€™t work there.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, andย Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor filed the suit along with the attorneys general of Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and New Hampshire. All are Republicans.

Theย Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS), the agency that issuedย the rule, and the White House didnโ€™t immediately return requests for comment on the lawsuit.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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