Forbes: Florida Gov. Rick Scott's Obamacare Medicaid Mea Culpa

[Skidmore]

Our local ABC station report this story this morning, adding that Scott apparently had his come-to-Jesus moment after his mother died last year. Is he up for reelection, perhaps?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/02/20/florida-gov-rick-scotts-obamacare-medicaid-mea-culpa/

In a major about-face, it appears Rick Scott, the former hospital chain CEO turned Republican governor of Florida, will expand the state’s Medicaid insurance program for the poor under the Affordable Care Act after all.

Several news outlets in Florida and Washington are reporting that Scott has changed his tune and will go along with an expansion to cover more than one million people for the first three years, allowing a new governor to decide what to do after that....

(snip)

Earlier, Scott said he did not want Florida to participate in the health law’s Medicaid expansion partly because of what he believed are eventual costs to his state for increasing coverage. Under the health law, states have the option thanks to the Supreme Court decision in June to not to take part in an expansion of the number of people eligible to receive Medicaid.

“I cannot in good conscience deny Floridians to healthcare,” Rick Scott said at a press conference in Florida this afternoon...

[djean111]

1. Yes, he is up for reelection soon.

Also, he will figure out a way to privatise everything so he and his cronies can siphon off the money from Washington.
He is quite good at cheating Medicaid, which endears him to the tea party types.
In their suppurating little world, ripping off millions from medicaid is laudable if done by corporations, but a poor person getting health care from Medicaid is abhorrent.

[malaise]

2. FFS wasn't it Medicaid that made his family wealthy

and led to serious trouble??

[tavernier]

3. In good conscience?

The man doesn't own a conscience so this is a silly sentence to begin with. Ask Florida's teachers about Rick Scott's compassion for his constituents.

[retread]

4. The undead Governor kicks off his reelection campaign. n/t