Marco Rubio’s healthcare plan covers 80 people in Florida

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FL Democratic Party ?@FlaDems 22h22 hours ago
RT @American_Bridge: Marco Rubio’s healthcare plan covers 80 people in Florida. Yes, you read that right. 80.



Politico:

Rubio-backed insurance market covers 80 people
Obamacare, which Rubio wants to repeal, covers 1.6 million in Florida alone.

In 2008, while Democrats were declaring that the time was right for national health care reform, Marco Rubio, the speaker of the Florida House, had a ready response: Florida should build a market-based system that would help contain the cost of insurance and make it more available.

Rubio pushed his no-mandate health insurance exchange, dubbed Florida Health Choices, through the state Legislature that year. “It’s about competition, it’s about choice, and it’s about the marketplace,” he told The Palm Beach Post at the time.

Florida Health Choices, which finally opened last year, now covers 80 people.

Rubio started pushing his vision well before Barack Obama entered the White House and began work on what would become the Affordable Care Act. But by the time Florida Health Choices launched post-Obamacare, the response by Floridians was tepid. The newly declared GOP presidential candidate didn’t include it in his campaign’s vision for how to repeal and replace the federal law. Nor did he mention it in a recent Fox News op-ed headlined “My three part plan for the post-Obamacare era.”

By the Feb. 15 Obamacare enrollment deadline, Florida Health Choices had signed up 56 individuals, and as of the middle of this week it had gained 24 more, CEO Rose Naff said in an interview. The state has set aside $2.4 million for the exchange since 2008 — an initial $1.5 million infusion that year and $900,000 in 2013...

read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-florida-insurance-market-117055.html

[AuntPatsy]

1. And he will earn votes by those not blessed by being in the same group as the 80, mind numbing

[lostnfound]

2. R/W FL governor means a friend lives with life-threatening constant pain

One friend was able to get Obamacare at a great rate, who hasn't had insurance in a decade.
But another falls below income level required for Obamacare, and Florida was an opted out of Medicare expansion. That friend lives with constant pain and at risk of dying, but can't get insurance for a necessary major operation.

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3. Scott's getting a lot of heat for that

...it could (should) finally be his downfall.What a despicable man he is.

[yeoman6987]

5. I think he can't run again after this term so he might be done.

[libdem4life]

4. He was a Medicare crook when in business, FL elected him to Governor. Amazing. n/t

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6. Not just any Medicare crook, either.

He presided over the largest Medicare fraud in history - $1.3 billion if memory serves.

[libdem4life]

7. He belonged in jail...not the Governor's Mansion. That news got stuffed early on.

[COLGATE4]

8. I live in Florida. It wouldn't have made any difference

to the huge number of Rethuglican yahoos we have here.

[libdem4life]

9. Oh, that's right. He's probably a hero to them for scamming the government. Silly me.

[COLGATE4]

10. They all think that if they work hard and vote

Rethug they'll all be rich like Scott when they grow up.