monmouth (19,526 posts)
Fla. Gov.: We won't comply with health care law
By GARY FINEOUT
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Florida Gov. Rick Scott now says Florida will do nothing to comply with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and will not expand its Medicaid program. The announcement is a marked changed after the governor recently said he would follow the law if it were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Florida is not going to implement Obamacare. We are not going to expand Medicaid and we're not going to implement exchanges," Scott's spokesman Lane Wright told The Associated Press on Saturday. Wright stressed that the governor would work to make sure the law is repealed.
Scott told Fox News the Medicaid expansion would cost Florida taxpayers $1.9 billion a year, but it's unclear how he arrived at that figure.
Scott said the state will not expand the Medicaid program in order to lower the number of uninsured residents, nor will Florida set up a state-run health exchange, a marketplace where people who need insurance policies could shop for them.
More dreck at: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ap/ap/health/fla-gov-we-wont-comply-with-health-care-law/nPjZB/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125151040Scott told Fox News the Medicaid expansion would cost Florida taxpayers $1.9 billion a year, but it's unclear how he arrived at that figure.
Yeah it will probably cost more than 1.9 billion.
Raven (10,430 posts)
1. Didn't he take an oath to uphold the law?
Just asking.
So did 0bama, but you cheered when he decided to start ignoring laws.
monmouth (19,526 posts)
2. Many in the comments section said the same thing. I hope the Feds come after him..n/t
The same feds that are allowing 0bama to ignore laws?
ailsagirl (7,416 posts)
5. Have the feds been able to stop the voter registration suppression that the DOJ directed them to do?
Is this how it's going to be from now on? Any government agency will in essence get flipped off and ignored by the right? This is so bizarre to me-- the neocons are so ferocious and so determined to get their way that they would (apparently) go to any lengths to get it. So far, they have shown no signs of abating their insane diatribes-- which, I admit, does make me nervous. I don't even know how many of them there are-- obviously they're a slim minority but still, it could be thousands upon thousands with their ammo blazing coming down on Washington or wherever. Yikes
There is no voter suppression, but what you are referring to was allowed by the courts, but the DOJ won't do their part, once again the 0bama administration disregarding laws that they don't like.
I warned you DUmmies when you were cheering that 0bama started ignoring laws that you weren't going to like it when the repukes did it. Your president set the precedent that laws that are not liked can be ignored.