Governors: No Omamacare in Louisiana, Florida

[CanonRay]

In separate interviews, the governors of Florida and Louisiana said they would defy this week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act.

“We’re not going to implement Obamacare in Florida,” Florida Governor Rick Scott said Friday, according to The Tampa Bay Times. “We’re not going to expand Medicaid because we’re going to do the right thing. We’re not going to do the exchange.”

One day earlier, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called the new health care plan, which requires states to set up a health insurance exchange plan by January 2014, a “blow to our freedoms,” as reported by ABC News.

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Why not just let them secede (again) and be done with it. Louisiana can become a swampy haven for RW douchebags. Apoligies to all DUers in Louisiana and Florida, but something,s gotta give here. I'm getting really, really tired of these idiots ruining the country.

[TransitJohn]

1. So let them fund their own damn Medicare budgets themselves, then.

Seems appropriate to me.

[and-justice-for-all]

2. They should not be allowed to do that...

there are people suffering in those states who need the ACA.

[SoutherDem]

3. I live in Alabama

I am sure our Governor will be joining the group very soon.

[tularetom]

4. Good. Let's stop all taxation of residents of those states

And let's not send anymore tax dollars in any form back to them.

They want to be "independent" let them be truly independent. No more highway improvements, no more military spending, no more medicare, social security limited to current retirees.

I'll take that deal any day. Good riddance to perpetual parasites. The states where Democrats are in the majority have been subsidizing these losers for a century or more. If the US were the EU they'd be Greece.

Call their bluff. Give them what what they want.

[dkf]

5. Omamacare? Lol.

[monmouth]

6. Wait until the Seniors here in Florida get wind of this...There will be hell...n/t

[Autumn]

10. Why would they be pissed?

Those Seniors in Florida already have their health care.

[monmouth]

16. No. Many, many of us do not..It's too expensive and we'd rather eat...n/t

[Autumn]

17. Excellent, I didn't know that the ACA helped Medicare recipients too.

I haven't seen anything about that. I can just imagine Florida's elderly population going after repukes with their canes.

[frazzled]

7. Right: just like they said they weren't going to take stimulus money

And then posed for pictures with all the projects built with the stimulus money they took.

As for the exchanges: who cares. If Florida or Louisiana doesn't comply, the law says the federal government steps in and sets up the exchanges for the citizens of those states.
As for the Medicaid expansion: The feds are going to pay 100% of the costs for the first years and 90% thereafter. These governors are not going to pass up that money.

This is election-year red meat.

[charmay]

8. Little boys having tantrums.

Dumbass Walker is having a hissy fit too.

[Junkdrawer]

9. I heard on DemocracyNow that the Feds set up exchanges when the states refuse....

It's in the law. It's like this was an anticipated and allowed tantrum Republican Governors were given.

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. That should go over well with the voters.

"You have to pay the taxes, but we aren't going to accept any of the benefits".



Oh, and you are welcome for cleaning up your beaches...

[DearAbby]

12. "WE DIDN'T GET OUR WAY - NOW THE POOR WILL SUFFER FOR IT

and we are going to hold our breath while we do it!!!"....It's theater, to rile the base, right before they slip into line with their hands out....talk about attention seekers. Taking the entire poor population and using their lives as a poker chip...Jesus, how far will these people go?

[bluestateguy]

13. The exchanges will be set up anyway

Bureaucrats will fly into Florida and Louisiana from D.C., shove aside Jindal and Scott's little sychophants, and set up the exchanges for them.

This is written into the law, and the Court did not quibble with it.

Don't anybody pee in my Wheaties.

[DCBob]

15. Thats good to hear and I suspect they know it.

This was all political theater to appease the RWingnuts and make some headlines. Pathetic.

[spanone]

14. wanna bet? the feds will do it if the asshole republican governors won't

that's the law.