Rokita Votes in Support of Budget to Save Taxpayers $5 Trillion Over Ten Years

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Plan includes Rokita's Medicaid/CHIP provisions to save $120 billion

Representative Todd Rokita (IN-4) today voted in support of the Path to Prosperity, a FY2013 budget proposal that would save taxpayers $5 trillion more over ten years than President Obama's proposal. The Path to Prosperity includes provisions from Rokita's State Health Flexibility Act which saves taxpayers an additional $120 billion over ten years.

"This budget shows respect for the American people because it's fair and it's honest. It tells them the truth about the bad condition that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and our tax code are already in," said Rokita, a member of the House Budget Committee. "And if we don't do something serious to address that, within a few years 100 percent of our tax dollars will have to go to these programs, leaving no money for anything else. The Path to Prosperity would actually help save these programs so they'll work for our kids and grandkids without bankrupting them."

The Path to Prosperity includes significant sections of Rokita's State Health Flexibility Act, which would model Medicaid reform on the successful welfare reforms of the late 1990s by returning more control to the states.

It accomplishes this by block granting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program to the states. The Path to Prosperity FY2013 would save taxpayers more than $800 billion in Medicaid spending, including $120 billion in savings from Rokita's ideas alone. The Path to Prosperity FY 2013 marks the first major step toward achieving these common-sense Medicaid reforms that would improve service and access for those who need it most.

Rokita also voted in support of an alternate budget proposal by the House Republican Study Committee that includes the full version of his State Health Flexibility Act, which would result in even more savings than the Path to Prosperity.

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