Dear Governor,

Your criticism of those who oppose your recent expansions of healthcare programs to persons who do not satisfy established legislatively approved eligibility requirements as being **** Scrooge-like in many ways,” is telling. What you don’t understand is that concerned citizens and taxpayers like myself, who are fully supportive of making basic healthcare available to all, want those reforms to be achieved in a constitutional manner. The Separations of Powers Provision in our State Constitution strictly prohibits the Executive from infringing upon or exercising the powers the Constitution exclusively reserves for the Legislature to exercise. It is for the Legislature to decide to amend, expand public assistance programs, enact new ones, and to determine the funding that will be made available for each such program.