Governors Express Hostility on Obama Care as Bi-Partisan Opposition Grows

Lost among all the health care talk has been the devastating impact Obama's plans could have on the states. Not anymore, with states paying over 40% of medicaid a significant amount of the fiscal burden of any changes will be on them:

WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s assurance that a revamping of the United States health-care system would not swell the federal deficit, his goal of quick congressional passage seemed to grow a bit more tenuous on Sunday as Republicans dug in their heels while governors in both parties raised concerns that they will be handed costly new Medicaid obligations without the money to pay for them.The states pay, on average, more than 40 percent of the cost of Medicaid, so they bear a significant burden of any expansion of the program to help more low-income Americans. At their annual summer meeting, in Biloxi, Miss., the governors said that their concerns dominated discussion, with striking levels of bipartisan hostility voiced during a closed-door luncheon on the topic on Saturday.

IN other news the president and his allies were out and about spinning lies and ha;f truths as a means to gin up support for their plans. Rangel kept up his tax the rich mantra and then lied about it affecting small business. Orszag, Obama's OMB point man floated a trial balloon about backing off on the August deadline for passing the legislation and Sebelius pushed Obama's lie about not adding to the deficit with her own trial balloon to float. She neither confirmed nor denied that Obama would support Rangel's tax increases. Of course that would be raising taxes in a recession but what the heck Obama has been making it up all long. Of course this hands off approach has led to two competing plans and reports are that a bi-partisan group in opposition the radical reform and fiscal lunacy of the left is forming.