Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller was asked to review Democrats’ health care reform proposal and report back to Sen. Richard Lugar and Indiana’s Congressional delegation.  His report was released today.  Democrat’s version of health care reform is devastating to Hoosier taxpayers, and will be politically damaging to those who supported it… like every Democrat that Indiana sends to Congress.  Just sayin’.  Here’s a clip.

If the Senate health care bill before Congress became law, Indiana would bear substantial costs. The bill would add roughly half a million more Hoosiers to the Medicaid rolls and create unintended consequences for patients, taxpayers and Indiana’s medical-device industry, according to the Indiana Attorney General’s report on the proposal. — Attorney General Greg Zoeller

Zoeller goes on to describe, in detail, the specific issues that adversly impact the state.  The bill has “serious constitutional issues” that stem from the individual mandate on all American’s to buy health insurance.  Zoeller correctly states that, “never before has the federal government required Americans to purchase any good or service, nor has it regulated inactivity.”

The costs on Indiana taxpayers are unsustainable, especially given our current budget situation.  Democrat’s proposal will add $2.4 billion in costs to the state Medicaid program, and shift to the federal government the savings the state currently receives from pharmaceutical rebates to the tune of $750 million.  The proposed insurance exchange will add another $60-$80 million in costs on the state.  Oh, and there are billions in new taxes on Indiana’s medical device industry that currently employs 35,000 Hoosiers.

Read the entire report by clicking here.