Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Offers Plan for Avoiding Health Care 'Train Wreck'

EVEN THE MOST CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER HAS TO WONDER AT THE IDIOCY OF THIS GOVERNOR.
YEAH! GIVE THE GOVERNORS THE PRIVILEGE OF CHOOSING THE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
MAY AS WELL RESURRECT BERNIE MADOFF. I WONDER WHO PLANTED THAT IDEA IN MITCH DANIEL'S HEAD? AND I'LL BET THAT THE RIGHT WING WILL SAY HE'S A GENIUS.

I am still waiting for some input from the doctors that will have to make the healthcare plan work. I am not talking about the AMA because the AMA does not represent the majority of doctors. All of the talks about mandates and rules and regulations are moot if the doctors retire or leave the medical practice for other medicine related fields. Most of what I have read shows that the doctors are mostly against the government run healthcare plan.

I would have to respectfully say to Gov. Daniels that he is so far off base in this approach. That is, he and his fellow governors are ready to concede defeat on the repeal of the health bill, already begging for a consolation prize before even game one of the series has been played out. This is a losing strategy. Mr. Obama is, I expect, smiling with glee at such an early concession and display of weak will. The governor did not have to do this. The health law was just ruled unconstitutional in Federal court because the mandate was found both unconstitutional and nonseverable. The referee ruled and has not been overruled. An administration moving forward to implement the bill is doing so in defiance of the Constitution. The governors should be on the offense, not implicitly accepting defeat by bargaining around the edges of the law. Gov. Daniels is not showing the principled determination needed in the Presidency.

One reason insurance comapnies can't now compete in more than a few states is that state like CA requires policies to cover phyche counseling, acupuncture, gender changes, breast implants, fertilization treatments, birth delivery, etc. (maybe not this extream but you get the picture). An 88 year old couple in CA wouldn't want or need that stuff. The State governor ought not to be able to pick who can compete in their state. There needs to be a range of standard policies (by age/risk) that insurance companies from all over the US can compete for within any state.

To pretend that this Health Care Law would somehow lower costs or deficit is just insane. Medicade costs are shared on a 50/50 basis with the federal govt.
With all but 2 or 3 states in deficit where is the states half of the money for doubling or tripling the number of recipients going to come from. States can't print money. Even more ludicrous is where and who are the Dr.s that are going to treat these patients.

States are wisely running away from the looming Obama healthcare quagmire which is becoming clearer will cost in the trillions and which employees will be expected to pick up much of the cost for. You know, because everyone is doing so well financially right now.