Fla. Republican Gov. Rick Scott is now backpedaling on his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, an issue he ran on when campaigning for office.
The governor told the Associated Press, “I don’t think anyone involved in trying to improve health care should say, ‘no, no, no,’ Let’s have a conversation.”
According to Bloomberg.com:
Scott’s conversion came one week after Election Day, when Florida voters supported Obama’s re-election and struck down a constitutional amendment aimed at making it harder to implement the health law. Governors in just 13 states committed before the election to building their own insurance exchanges, which the law requires to provide coverage to the uninsured. If states fail to act, the federal government will create them.
Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for Scott, said in a written statement the governor wants to find “solutions that are good for Florida families by reducing cost and improving quality and access in health care.”
This represents a complete about face from Scott’s decision after the U.S. Supreme Court found the act, in the main, constitutional at the close of its session last June. At that time Scott told Fox News, “We’re not going to implement Obamacare in Florida. We’re not going to expand Medicaid because we’re going to do the right thing,” adding that doing so, in his opinion, would be “devastating” for patients and for the economy.
Read the full story at Bloomberg.com.
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I guess the governor just found out how many Latinos are really in Florida.
I think he needs to keep his word and keep us out of Obama care. I thought he would be a different and not cave in to Washington.
It isn’t the first time he has caved in and it won’t be the last. Weebles Wobble.
no one can negiate with obozoe for he thinks he is some sort of god
he is a lier a fraud theif and what ever else i can think of
Like he did with E verify
I DON’T want OBAMACARE!!!!!
obamacare is no good for a stifled Florida economy repeal obamacare
Don’t worry, remember, Governor Scott said it was not going to happen in Florida.
What Gov. Scott will NOT admit is “Fieldworks” (ACORN morphed) is ALIVE and ACTIVE in Florida. The voting system is BROKEN and saturated with FRAUD. The one aspect of democracy the middle east DOES RIGHT is “identify” persons who’ve already cast their vote i.e. ink dipped finger, stamped forehead or readily identifying mark that a person’s VOTE HAS BEEN USED AND THEY CANNOT VOTE AGAIN!