From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - July 22, 2011: On July 19, attorneys general in 21 states filed a brief backing Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s  Filed last July in U.S. District Court, Lieutenant Governor Kinders’ suit contends that the law’s individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional, the law’s expansion of Medicaid could force Missouri to raise state taxes, and the law improperly alters state officials’ compensation by changing their health care plan.  In other health care reform news, in June, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials awarded 39 waivers exempting health plans from the law’s annual benefit limit requirement, bringing the total number of waivers to 1,471.  September 22 is the last day that HHS will accept applications for waivers.  Waivers granted or renewed by September 22 will run through 2013. (R) challenge of the national health care reform law.