[South40]

The letter was written April 6 not April 4.

Outlines of 'HillaryCare' were known before Perry wrote letter praising reform effort

[GOPyouth]

I stand corrected.

[GOPyouth]

I stand corrected.

[thackney]

Your link reference an report by the Los Angeles Times written one day before Rick Perry's letter was written.

Let us look at how that report introduced its information:

Some fundamental choices still have not been made, and many key details will be left to the administrative rules-making process later, sources say.

“There's still a tremendous amount of uncertainties, many different alternatives, many different points of view,” said Princeton University sociologist Paul Starr, a senior analyst with the White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform, chaired by the First Lady. “Things are far from being settled.”

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/politifact/092411_latpaulbackup.pdf