Serafin Gomez of foxnews.com reports the following:
BILOXI, Miss. — On the third day of their annual meeting, governors from both parties raised concerns over a health care bill being pushed by Democrats in Washington, D.C.
In a heated closed-door session, both Republican and Democratic governors criticized the bill that many said could turn into another unfunded mandate from Congress. The issue dominated the afternoon discussion.
“The governors are concerned about unfunded mandates, another situation where the Federal government says you must do X and you must pay for it. Well if they want to reform health care, they should figure out what the rules are and how they are going to pay for it,” Democratic Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told FOX News.
“Instead what they are proposing is — they’re figuring out the rules and forcing the states to pay for it,” he said.
A major worry for many governors is potential cost increases that would fall on states in order to expand Medicaid programs.
“This huge expansion of Medicaid would be extremely expensive in my state. We anticipate that it would increase spending on Medicaid by 50 percent, and that’s money we don’t have. And other states don’t have it either,” Gov. Haley Barbour ,R-Miss., head of the Republican governors, said after the mid-day meeting.
The new chairman of the National Governors Association, Vermont Democrat Jim Douglas said that while many governors want to re-vamp the health care system, they feel the bill’s current structure unfairly burdens the states at a time when their budgets are already stretched thin.
“Our concern as governors is Congress not impose a cost that we can’t absorb at a time when our budgets are under tremendous stress,” Gov. Douglas told FOX News.
“I don’t know what the pace might be but we’re going to keep resisting an unfunded mandate from Washington,” he said.
The governors conclude their meeting on Monday.
Original article can be found here:
Many Governors Against Health Care Bill, Label it Unfunded Mandate
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President Obama’s Healthcare Plan will only work for this country if all and I mean “all” people are enrolled in it. That starts with the president and congress and staff and families and works its way through the judicial, the postal workers, the IRS and all military branches. A universal healthcare plan should be the same price no matter who you are or where you work or don’t work. Unless this bill covers all the people, it just another way to promote the class society and that is what will destroy our country. When everyone has the same benefits, then it will be fairly and evenly distributed, but when governent holds itself to a different standard, then the people will be the ones who are unfairly apportioned.