Rick Snyder
Governor of Michigan
Lansing Michigan
February 05, 2013
Governor Snyder,
Please accept this letter as a strenuous objection to ANY expansion of Medicaid in the state of Michigan.
The money received must still come from taxpayers in other ways. There is nothing free or advantageous within this expansion. We need to roll back government provided services, NOT expand them.
Medical care itself is not a RIGHT, but rather product that comes as a result of that pursuit which IS. We can no more hold a gun to the heads of taxpayers for an obscene expansion of social contract, than we would to a plumber who might refuse to fix our pipes for lack of payment.
The distortion of free market health care growth and advances under the `affordable health care' act signed by President Obama will be bad enough without our state's participation. Short term financial gains belie the ultimate burden we place on our generations to come; in higher taxes (which require force to collect) and reduced health care options as fewer professionals opt to become a part of a government controlled market.
Reducing restrictions on health care providers, and incentivising the pool of those providers is a better way of providing affordable access to needed services. Programs that come with encumbrances merely replace our own free markets with central planning methods which never work.
Please abandon any efforts to involve the citizens of Michigan in what was (perhaps by design) one of the worst catastrophes in public policy of our lifetime.
Thank you for your consideration on this matter.
Jason Gillman
933 Ave D
Traverse City, MI 49696
