MN republican plan for public workers - is this legal?

[spedtr90]

Would the first paragraph below be legal?? Can they pass a law that denies a group of people the right to access a federal law/program?


The bill also removes public employees from the Federal Health Care Law that allows coverage of dependents up until the age of 25.

The bill includes massive increases in out-of-pocket health-care expenses and shifts the entire premium cost onto the backs of state employees.The wage freeze and move toward an extremely costly high-deductible insurance plan continue the massive assault on the collective bargaining process by the Republican majorities at the Legislature.

The bill forces state employees into a high-deductible insurance plan that could cost families and single employees who depend on this health-care coverage thousands of additional dollars each year.

[madrchsod]

1. no...federal law supersedes state law

[rzemanfl]

3. Federal Law is interpreted by a Supreme Court dominated by

Repukes, so don't count on anything, see, e.g., Bush v. Gore.

[Scuba]

2. Only if Michelle Bachmann says it's OK. n/t