Medicaid expansion: There is a better alternative

Sen. Patrick Colbeck on Medicaid expansion: There is a better alternative | MLive.com:
"I remain stridently opposed to this legislation because it:

1. Expands an already unsustainable Medicaid program
2. Encourages poor quality care through managed care
3. Raises the cost of healthcare for many to subsidize lower cost healthcare for some
4. Increases government spending
5. Increases the debt risk for future generations
6. Promotes uncertainty in Michigan’s healthcare market as its parent legislation, Obamacare, suffers from so many implementation delays that Democrat Senators Max Baucus and Harry Reid have referred to it as a “train wreck”
7. Discourages job growth as expenses and uncertainty increase
8. Simply converts uncompensated care in hospitals to undercompensated care
9. Promotes current third party payment model with minimal price transparency
10. Promotes expanded control over “we the people” rather than returning control of healthcare decisions to patients and their doctors

The most significant reason that I remain stridently opposed to HB 4714 is very simple, though.
We have a better option. 
That option is the Patient-Centered Care Act that I have introduced as Senate Bills 459 and 460. "