White House report: Blocking Medicaid expansion will cost Florida 63,000 jobs

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Source: Tampa Bay Times

WASHINGTON — The White House has a Medicaid expansion argument for Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Republicans: It creates jobs.

A state-by-state report released Wednesday estimates that Florida would generate about 63,000 jobs, mainly in health care, from 2014-2017. That's the three years that the federal government would have paid the entire cost of providing health care to 848,000 people.

In Tallahassee, new legislative leaders come on board at the end of the year but little may change. Incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner said he still supports a Medicaid expansion alternative his chamber developed but there is little room to negotiate with counterparts in the House.

"Unfortunately, the federal government in their mandate is all or nothing," said Gardiner, R-Orlando. "I think that's one of the things that adds to the challenge."

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/white-house-report-medicaid-expansion-would-create-63000-jobs-in-florida/2186836

[Dr Hobbitstein]

1. I really hate my state...

Bunch of halfwits running this place...

[rtracey]

2. Don't worry

Many others do too... Crist will prevail

[Cali_Democrat]

3. So not only will thousands of people die because of the GOP's refusal to expand medicaid...

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it will also costs the country tens of thousands of jobs.

[valerief]

4. Republicans are gleeful over this! nt

[russspeakeasy]

5. and morticians.

[SummerSnow]

6. The GOP Death Panels

[C Moon]

7. Jobs? They're Republicans, what do they care about jobs?

[DirkGently]

9. Rick Scott promised 1 zillion new jobs in FL.

Or thereabouts. First official act: canceling a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail grant, eliminating thousands of potential jobs.

[csziggy]

13. Scott couldn't figure out how to make money off high speed rail

He couldn't skim money off to go into his pocket and the pockets of his cronies.

And he didn't fight for Medicaid expansion since the controls against fraud are too tight for him to rip it off like he did Medicare.

Republicans are all for big projects when they can make money off them. If there is oversight to block that, they will fight tooth and nail to stop them.

[DirkGently]

14. That does seem to be Scott's philosophy.

It's not actually that he doesn't like government, although that's the way he puts it, just like the rest of the "Tea Party" conservatives.

He just wants taxes collected funneled directly into his pockets; else what's the point?

I suspect that's what the rest of them really want as well.

[DirkGently]

8. Spiteful nose biting: our governor's speciality.

[Corey_Baker08]

10. I'm Trying To Figure Out Why The Ohio Governor Expanded Medicaid But The Indiana Governor Refused??

Unfortunately we too have a Republican Governor by the name of Mike Pence who has looked the other way on this issue even when the neighboring state of Ohio with a way more Conservative Governor, John Kasich, in fact has actually allowed the expansion of Medicaid.

So the way I look at it with both the Republican Governor of Indiana & the Republican Governor of Ohio who both have a Republican controlled legislature, in my opinion I assume that 1 of the 2 is heavily considering a run for the 2016 Presidential Campaign....?

I literally live so close to the Ohio-Indiana border that if you cross the street you are in a different state. Ive grown up around this area and if I lived on the Ohio side of the state-line, John Boehner would be my Congressman, & if I cross to the Indiana side of the State Line my Congressman was of all people, the now Governor of Indiana Mike Pence.

I apologize if this is confusing to you but the point I am trying to make is that Republicans control & influence both Indiana & Ohio with a wide majority of support in both Congressional districts whether it be Ohio or Indiana.

So I ask you to consider this, Why would the Governor of Ohio,John Kasich, who in my opinion is way more Conservative and closer to the tea-party than the more 'moderate Republican Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, Why would the more conservative Governor say yes to expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, while the more moderate Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, refuses to expand Medicaid?

So help me out here because the only way I can rationalize this situation is that one of the two Governors' are definitely running for President in 2016???

So if this is in fact the case, Which Governor is definitely considering a run for the 2016 Republican nominee in your opinion, the more Conservative Governor of the state of Ohio, which is a must win state for Republicans in 2016, or the more 'moderate' Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence?

[sakabatou]

11. And how many lives?

[Turbineguy]

12. Well, yes, but that cost is in a good cause.

The republican cause of doing harm to people.