Do you think Obamacare is here to stay?

On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was the latest to refuse ObamaCare's
massive intrusion into state affairs. He won't be expanding Medicaid — a
key part of ObamaCare's attempt to boost coverage — or setting up a
state-run insurance "exchange" to administer its massive regulations and
subsidies.

As Perry told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,
ObamaCare would make Texas "a mere appendage of the federal government
when it comes to health care."

Perry, along with governors in 14 other states — which represent
almost a third of the entire U.S. population — have more or less made it
clear that they will say "no thanks" to ObamaCare's vast expansion of
Medicaid.

Since the ultimate cost of this expansion will be huge — Texas alone
would get hit with a bill of $6 billion between 2014 and 2019 — states
are right to refuse the offer.

Under the law, most of the uninsured would get coverage through an
expanded Medicaid, which Obama tried to force down states' throats by
threatening to take all their federal Medicaid funds away if they didn't
play along.

Plus, by handing the job of creating the exchanges to the federal
government, states can actually protect state-based companies from the
ObamaCare mandate that they provide insurance to their employees or pay a
penalty.