After the Supreme Court’s ruling, President Obama declared ObamaCare “here to stay.” But a revolt is brewing among states that, if it continues, could cause key pieces of the misbegotten law to collapse.

On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was the latest to refuse ObamaCare’s massive intrusion into state affairs. He won’t be expanding Medicaid — a key part of ObamaCare’s attempt to boost coverage — or setting up a state-run insurance “exchange” to administer its massive regulations and subsidies.

As Perry told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, ObamaCare would make Texas “a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.”

Perry, along with governors in 14 other states — which represent almost a third of the entire U.S. population — have more or less made it clear that they will say “no thanks” to ObamaCare’s vast expansion of Medicaid.

Since the ultimate cost of this expansion will be huge — Texas alone would get hit with a bill of $6 billion between 2014 and 2019 — states are right to refuse the offer.

Under the law, most of the uninsured would get coverage through an expanded Medicaid, which Obama tried to force down states’ throats by threatening to take all their federal Medicaid funds away if they didn’t play along.

The one saving grace of the Supreme Court’s disastrous ObamaCare ruling was that it struck down this federal power grab, giving states the option of refusing to comply with the Medicaid expansion, without risking any existing federal Medicaid dollars.

Even liberal Maine made it clear that it has no interest in ObamaCare’s overgrown Medicaid plan. Just as the ink was drying on the court’s ruling, the state moved to cut more than 20,000 people from its Medicaid rolls immediately.

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