Whereas: Expanding Medicaid entitlements will cause irreparable long-term harm to Missouri's economy; and
Whereas: Expanding socialized healthcare in Missouri will create incentives to waste medical services, overburdening our limited hospitals and emergency rooms, creating shortages; and
Whereas: Expanding ObamaCare to able-bodied men and women who choose not to work encourages poverty; and
Whereas: ObamaCare expansion in Missouri will create a "Welfare Cliff" and penalize those in the program who pursue work; and
Whereas: Governor Nixon is actively pressuring Republican legislators to expand ObamaCare over the objection of Missouri taxpayers.
Therefore: I demand that Missouri's Republican lawmakers stand strong against ObamaCare expansion.