Governor Jim Gibbons, Nevada, on the Health Care Reform bill.

“…..as we try and rebuild and build our way out of this, this bill assesses Nevada with about $613 million in costs, additional costs to the taxpayers of Nevada. It is literally making the Grand Canyon out of this recession.”

“……if you and I had done the back room deals and the payoffs that this bill took to get passed for every one of those votes, you and I would be GUILTY OF CORRUPTION. We would have been arrested for corruption.”

“…..we’ve asked for the state of Nevada’s attorney general to look at the constitutionality of this. First of all, it’s an unfunded mandate down to the state of Nevada, changing Medicaid qualification standards, FORCING US TO RAISE TAXES, whether or not the federal government can be actually in charge of the delivery of health care as an insurer in competition. Those are issues that I think outstrip even the commerce clause and the Founding Fathers’ beliefs in the Constitution.”

BTW…Senator Harry Reid, Nevada, essentially co-authored the bill……so no payoffs or bribes for Nevada are necessary.

- Vics