Rubio-backed insurance market covers a whopping 80 people

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By Rachana Pradhan

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.

Obamacare, which Rubio wants to repeal, covers 1.6 million in Florida alone. And 93 percent of them are subsidized.


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

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Last time it was in the news it covered 50.

So Rubio press releases are probably touting a 60% increase in RubioCare enrollees since then.

[edhopper]

2. And hundreds of thousands more would be covered

if they didn't block Medicade expansion.
Why do these assholes get re-elected as they destroy lives?