Rick Perry on Obamacare: "these exchanges represent nothing more than another federal power grab in the guise of a supposedly free market"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/11/18/rick-perry-expansion-medicaid-health-exchanges/1713203/

Rick Perry: 'Another federal power grab'

States can't afford Medicaid expansion, health insurance exchanges.

"Setting aside the obvious fact that health insurance is readily available under current conditions — the problem has been price, not availability — these exchanges represent nothing more than another federal power grab in the guise of a supposedly free market.

States were given the option to set up and execute their own exchanges — at their own expense. The fine print, however, specified that the exchanges would have to follow all rules and guidelines imposed by the federal government, with little to no flexibility. The kicker: Many of these rules and regulations are unknown.

Again, this is par for the course as we continue down the road to fiscal disaster at the hands of ObamaCare.

In Texas, Medicaid spending already accounts for nearly 25% of our general revenue spending, and its costs are only expected to continue skyrocketing."