Whereas: The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"; and
Whereas: The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have and have always had rights the federal government may not usurp; and
Whereas: The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), also known as ObamaCare, attempts to lure the states into expanding their Medicaid programs, which is optional under ObamaCare, by promising to pay certain costs associated with the expansion for a couple of years, leaving the state with the responsibility to pay all new administrative expenses and eventually pick up other significant expenses, which our state cannot afford; and
Whereas: Expanding Medicaid entitlements will cause irreparable harm to taxpayers and our state’s health care.
Therefore, be it resolved that we, the citizens of the great state of Oklahoma demand that our state legislators actively oppose and vote “NO” on ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion.