Please read the entire letter here:
My favorite part is when Daniels just hammers home the absolute ridiculousness of the House bill:
A partial list of the negative impact on our state would include:
Billions in costs for Hoosier taxpayers through the mandated expansions of Medicaid to some 1/4 of the population. The official estimate for the first few years is $1.4 billion, which would be bad enough, but never in Medicaid history have these original projections not been exceeded, so we know the real number will be much higher.
Hundreds of thousands of Indiana citizens would be forced out of their current coverage, and a similar number would experience a doubling or tripling of their premiums if their coverage continued at all. The notion that enormous new taxes can have any effect other than to raise costs flunks the common sense test in any Hoosier coffee shop.
Hoosiers, particularly younger ones, will share for their lifetimes in the unbearable costs this scheme will add to the dangerous levels of national debt which other recent legislation is already making much, much worse.
In many ways, I want to thank President Obama for pushing so hard on his health care scheme. We as a nation are now faced with the very real choice of going down the French, German, and British path of socialism-lite or remembering the words of Ronald Wilson Reagan who said, "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
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