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Topic: Rick Scott´s Medicaid Decision is a Big Win for the White House |
Rick Scott´s Medicaid Decision is a Big Win for the White House
National Journal, by Margot Sanger-Katz
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Posted By:Drive, 2/21/2013 7:30:49 AM
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| Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s decision to expand his state’s Medicaid program is a huge political and practical win for President Obama´s White House. Scott, who rose to the governor’s mansion on an anti-Obamacare campaign, also led the legal effort to overturn the president’s health reform law last year. Without the multistate lawsuit led by Florida, expanding state Medicaid programs would never have been optional. Now, he is one of seven Republican governors who have endorsed expanding their programs. After the Supreme Court ruled that states
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 2/21/2013 7:44:25 AM (No. 9188398)
May I have my vote back? I´d rather vote for Kendrick Meeks; at least he was up front about fiscally beating Floridians about the head.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snapper451, 2/21/2013 7:53:30 AM (No. 9188412)
Put a fork in Rick Scott - he´s done. What a fool to play to the liberal newspapers who have been calling for this. Yes, one more bit of bipartisanship which means give Democrats what they want. I agree with poster #1 - I want my vote back too! Now the liberal press will try to tell us that we need Charlie Crist back. However, his beard / wife´s rejection of her own children will cost him. Hopefully someone challenges Scott in a primary.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 2/21/2013 7:56:04 AM (No. 9188418)
Annnnnd this is why Republicans will continue to lose. Why would a citizen who is genuinely concerned about the spending, the government overreach even bother to vote for a Republican again? Why waste the vote? Jan Brewer, Susanna Martiniez,Kasich and Scott care more about Obamaphone voters than the out or control Obamacare leviathan. What is the use?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rabbit, 2/21/2013 7:58:33 AM (No. 9188425)
The Medicaid program has been expanded - law passed, Supreme Court ruled. So taxpayers in every state will pay.
A governor´s decision is: will he let his people´s taxes go to pay for this service in other states, or come back to their own state?
If the governor turns it down, then locals will have their property taxes increase and their health insurance premiums increase to cover the uninsured who show up at emergency rooms or local clinics for the uninsured. And their taxes to Washington will remain unchanged.
Economically, it was designed to be a deal that states would be stupid to refuse.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
noproblems, 2/21/2013 8:10:54 AM (No. 9188455)
states should pay for their own social welfare. why does this money go to Washington and then back to the states. why should people in Texas pay for welfare in California?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rotten In Denmark, 2/21/2013 8:21:28 AM (No. 9188467)
I might add to 5´s good position, at whatever level of funding they deem proper. Want a lot of drones? Have really, really attractive services and reimbursements...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Passion, 2/21/2013 8:24:11 AM (No. 9188468)
Another Florida "weepublican" attempts to please those who hate him, and will end up only making sure no one who used to like him still does. This is Rove Bush redux - and Scott is now without a consitutiency and is done, but the real damage to the nation is a win for Obama Care.
What´s the word? Effyew?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/21/2013 8:28:18 AM (No. 9188474)
Barky sends you 10 billion.
The program only costs 5 billion.
You have 5 billion left over to play with.
".....you never call me Godfather."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lifelonghuman, 2/21/2013 8:29:20 AM (No. 9188476)
Florida will be saddled with this expansion after a few years and the feds cut back the money. He thinks he can get out then. He´s a fool.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 2/21/2013 8:31:47 AM (No. 9188479)
What´s 66 billion dollars over 10 years when we have already spent over 17 trillion dollars we don´t have? What´s the big deal? We can spend unlimited amounts of money cause we never intend to pay it back.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
right-turn, 2/21/2013 9:08:26 AM (No. 9188559)
I think little Ricky will have competition from his party next time he runs. Now we have to figure which party that is.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Whamdbambam, 2/21/2013 9:20:48 AM (No. 9188579)
"Economically, it was designed to be a deal that states would be stupid to refuse."
In hopes of being the last one eaten, i suppose.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/21/2013 9:35:17 AM (No. 9188608)
BETRAYED ! John Roberts should have given citizens a fighting chance to get OUT of Obamacare. There are more leeches than there are responsible people voting, so Robert´s "cure" of fixing this at the ballot box does not work. Now I am betrayed again by a Governor I voted for, who ran on a promise of rejecting Obamacare. All that´s left is for millions of us to surround the Capitol and keep the Congress inside until they pass a bill repealing Obamacare in totality. As for Governor, Allen West would be great.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
terry_tr6, 2/21/2013 9:38:40 AM (No. 9188616)
this still has to pass the state legislature. they don´t meet again for a month.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
olcap, 2/21/2013 9:49:12 AM (No. 9188646)
When will we learn that we should never put our faith (or vote) in a known crook? Rick Scott is a known crook, a dishonest person, and a man without integrity. Some of us knew that long ago.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
confused, 2/21/2013 10:19:46 AM (No. 9188712)
so the only question is: was he found with a dead female or a live boy. We know who has the pictures!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TexasRose, 2/21/2013 10:24:11 AM (No. 9188724)
Tell me again why we need RINO´s?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/21/2013 10:56:04 AM (No. 9188794)
It is a pleasure to say "I told you so".
I voted for Bill McCollum in the primary. He was our Attorney General who master minded the 26 state challenge to Obamacare that our present Attorney General, Pam Bondi is taking credit for.
It was well known here in Fl. that Scott had headed a firm that defrauded Medicare for millions. But Scott looked good and McCollum is rather nerdy looking. Right Floridians?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bassman, 2/21/2013 10:58:11 AM (No. 9188797)
Just another reason why I won´t vote for Rick Scott again.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lavalette, 2/21/2013 11:36:43 AM (No. 9188881)
Democrats are darkness. Only the Republican Party (or a replacement)can provide light. So the fight is internal to the Republican Party to rid ourselves of RINO leadership. I feel like the Scotts in Braveheart ready to fight while their own nobles are selling them out to Longshanks.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 2/21/2013 2:25:58 PM (No. 9189287)
Vote buying. All good posts. Maybe corporal cue ball knows he´s on a banana peel to get re-elected.
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