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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    A Real Governor


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jul 09, 2012 at 09:52:07 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Crony, Rick Snyder, Governors, Rick Perry, Courage, Obamacare, ACA, LIarsTax, Exchanges, Trust (all tags)

    The easy wimpy way to reward your crony friends well into this entire ACA debacle is to roll over play dead, and permit those buddies waiting in the wings to apply THEIR form of 'capitalism'.

    Right Governor Snyder?

    With all due respect, it takes a little more substance to represent your state sir.  Especially when 26 states are ready to tell Obama where he can stick his health care.  They pretty much have already. And given the outcome of the upcoming electoral contests in the Senate, the Congress, and yes, the 'occupied' White house, its likely that doing anything to capitulate with the insanity would be a foolish endeavor we would have to roll back anyhow.

    Why in the heck would we want to complicate things further?

    Take a lesson from one of your counterparts.  Governor Rick Perry has kicked Obama's messenger, 300 style, into the abyss from which such laws emanate.

    He pretty much told that gal to deliver a go-to-hell with the mandate, expansive overreach, and unconstitutional buggery of the american people with a letter delivered today.  A message for the man who was elected president in our nations fit of idiocy, who has shown himself to be incapable of recognizing cause and effect, misunderstands markets, and has no respect for what our founders shed blood for.  

    Read the letter below the fold.  Would that we Michiganders have such courage in our executive office.

    Delivered to Sebelious today Rick Perry said "take this law and shove it.":

    The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
    Secretary
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
    Washington, D.C. 20201

    Dear Secretary Sebelius :
    In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by - in the words of the Supreme Court - putting a gun to their heads. Now that the "gun to the head" has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose both the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called "state" insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.

    I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation's founders that we have the right to do so.

    Neither a"state" exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better "patient protection" or in more "affordable care." What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.

    The PPACA does not truly allow states to create and operate their own exchanges. Instead, it gives the federal government the final say as to which insurance plans can operate in a so-called "state" exchange, what benefits those plans must provide, and what price controls and cost limits will apply. It leaves many questions to be answered later through federal "future rule making." In short, it essentially treats the states like subcontractors through which the federal government can control the insurance markets and pursue federal priorities rather than those of the individual states.

    Through its proposed expansion of Medicaid, the PPACA would simply enlarge a broken system that is already financially unsustainable. Medicaid is a system of inflexible mandates, one-size-fits-all requirements, and wasteful, bureaucratic inefficiencies. Expanding it as the PPACA provides would only exacerbate the failure of the current system, and would threaten even Texas with financial ruin.

    I look forward to implementing health care solutions that are right for the people of Texas. I urge you to support me in that effort. In the meantime, the PPACA's unsound encroachments will find no foothold here.

    Sincerely

    Rick Perry
    Governor
    RP:kwp

    cc The Honorable David Dewhurst
        The Honorable Joe Straus


    Indeed.

    Trust that every financial interest or party involved in any health care exchange scheme coming out of Lansing will be fully investigated. The Michigan Bank of Trust says your account has been overdrawn.  Any efforts to override or pressure this legislature with regard to this issue shall be looked upon as a self serving act worthy of scorn and reproach.

    Once again.

    H/T Adam Cahn

    < Now About That Obamacare Rebate | House Republicans Doing Thug-Work For MEA >


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    A RINO reminder (none / 0) (#1)
    by Corinthian Scales on Tue Jul 10, 2012 at 11:29:27 AM EST

    'nuff said.

    Another fact that has been "overlooked". (none / 0) (#2)
    by KG One on Tue Jul 10, 2012 at 03:46:00 PM EST
    The feds are only springing for the first three years of this "benefit", ironically with borrowed money.

    After that,
    they start ratcheting down the percentage they'll reimburse.

    Let's see a show of hands: Who wants another unfunded mandate as a line item in the state budget?

    C'mon, now!

    Don't be shy.

    For a person obsessed with numbers and metrics, a person like Snyder promoting this (along with Michigan republicans) effectively erases any line between them and the democrats.

    They'll be one and the same.


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