Gov. Scott: Florida will not implement insurance exchanges or expand Medicare

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-07-03 01:29

  Florida, the state the led the fight against President Obama's health care law, will not comply with the Supreme Court opinion.
  Gov. Rick Scott tells Fox News that he and his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will work tirelessly to make sure the law is repealed. He feels that can be done by electing officials, like Mitt Romney, who have vowed to fight the law before 2014, when most of its provisions kick in.
  If that doesn't happen, Scott insists he still won't "implement these exchanges that will increase the cost of health and make Medicaid worse."
  Scott claims Medicaid has been growing in Florida at three-and-half times the state's general revenue. He calls the law the "biggest job killer ever" and says Floridians cannot afford the $1.9 billion dollar increase he believes the law will cost.
  Gov. Scott doesn't believe the law will go into effect in 2014. As a result, he's also not expanding his state's Medicaid program. And he says Florida can do without the federal money it will lose.
  "That's still Florida taxpayers paying that," he said. "It's not like there's free federal money. Every program cuts back and you create this dependency and then they cut back like they did with our schools."
  Scott claims he is not alone. He says other Republican governors like Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana are with him.
  But Perry hasn't decided what he will do in Texas. Neither his office nor the state's attorney general's office would give a timetable for a decision either.
  "All those decisions will be made at the appropriate time, we are assessing the impact of the decision and will explore all of our options," Perry press secretary Catherine Frazier tells Fox News.
  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is considering other legal actions to dismantle parts of the president's health care law. But his office wouldn't give specifics, simply saying he is exploring lawsuits "against certain provisions, like the contraception mandate."
  
  

  
  
  http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/07/01/gov-scott-florida-will-not-implement-insurance-exchanges-or-expand-medicare
  
  you know
  the governor who purged thousands of Democrat voters in Florida
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  http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/06/495952/update-florida-governor-rick-scott-officially-defies-justice-department-vows-to-continue-voter-purge/
• Cynic wrote on 2012-07-03 01:36
  Republicans.. they never cease to amaze me.
  
  

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• Drizzit wrote on 2012-07-03 01:41
  Good for him.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-07-03 01:46
  If he believes that the healthcare reform law will screw his state, then he has the right to make a fuss about it and all. Meh.
  
  The voter purge you mentioned as a side point is actually more interesting. Apparently the conflict is over the Obama administration basically allowing non-citizens to vote. They are not giving the state of Florida access to the citizenship database so they could check and know with certainty if someone on the voter list is an actual citizen or not, so Florida came up with some other way to check for citizenship status (which may not be as accurate?). This is absolutely ridiculous, and if it really is what's happening, then the Obama administration is basically committing electoral fraud by allowing non-citizens to vote, most of whom are ethnic minorities who are more likely to vote for a Democrat.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-07-03 01:51

  Quote from Drizzit;899680:

  Good for him.

  
  
  yes
  this is great
  he's helping Obama win
• Drizzit wrote on 2012-07-03 01:58
  Not if the majority of his citizens oppose Obamacare, which could very well be the case. Not that I care, Obama and Romney are both assholes, so it doesn't matter who wins.
• paladin wrote on 2012-07-03 01:59
  But if it gets based into federal law and if they dont do something legally,obama can call the troops to force enforcement
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-07-03 02:05

  Quote from Drizzit;899693:

  Not if the majority of his citizens oppose Obamacare, which could very well be the case. Not that I care, Obama and Romney are both assholes, so it doesn't matter who wins.

  
  
  false
  it was 50/50 before the Supreme Court ruling
  now with their upholding, it leaned over to the support of Obamacare
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-07-03 02:18
  Actually, it was 54% against Obama's health care law. But that majority also included a lot of people who hated it for not going far enough. xd