OBAMACARE FACES HURDLE OVER MEDICAID IN FLORIDA
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS?
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WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS?
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Good evening, HealthWIRE Subscriber,
We've seen variations on this theme dozens of times. The Chief Executive battles the Speaker of the House!
Who can forget Newt Gingrich going toe-to-toe with Bill Clinton? Perhaps we'd like to see more sparks fly from Speaker Boehner going after President Obama?
Currently sparks are flying in a face-off pitting Republican against Republican: Florida's Governor Rick Scott and Speaker of the House Will Weatherford. Tempest in a tea pot?
To expand or not to expand Medicaid -- that is the question. But it's really about Obamacare. Obamacare expands the number of people who qualify as poor -- and thus the number in Medicaid.
We've seen variations on this theme dozens of times. The Chief Executive battles the Speaker of the House!
Who can forget Newt Gingrich going toe-to-toe with Bill Clinton? Perhaps we'd like to see more sparks fly from Speaker Boehner going after President Obama?
Currently sparks are flying in a face-off pitting Republican against Republican: Florida's Governor Rick Scott and Speaker of the House Will Weatherford. Tempest in a tea pot?
To expand or not to expand Medicaid -- that is the question. But it's really about Obamacare. Obamacare expands the number of people who qualify as poor -- and thus the number in Medicaid.
+ + SO IT IS A BIG DEAL -- AN OPPORTUNITY TO REJECT PART OF OBAMACARE! + +
Read the brief background story about it -- "Florida Speaker Calls Out Obamacare-Medicaid." Just yesterday Weatherford lambasted the Medicaid expansion in his inaugural speech to the 120 members of the Florida House.
I don't live in Florida and don't necessarily want to take sides. The Governor is for the expansion, the Speaker against it. Simple, right? Maybe not!
The Governor only wants the expansion for three years, 2014-2016. Just perhaps three years too long?
Yes -- because those are the years that Obamacare hits up the whole country to pay the entire tab for the extra cost in individual states. But will Floridians want to give up even the reduced payola specified by Obamacare come 2017?
Even consider the estimated 1.5 million Floridians who stand to gain coverage in 2014. Is it fair to string them along only to drop them at the end of the three-year handout? Might that incite civil turmoil if it's given and taken away?
As you have seen from the story linked above, I didn't give Speaker Weatherford much of a break -- just because he opposes the expansion. He doesn't find any problem with Medicaid per se. Too bad he doesn't support reducing Medicaid -- rather than not supporting an expansion.
So the Republicans have a fundamental problem when:
1) One such politician supports a bad idea because there's a money spigot -- and he has "compassion."
2) And the other elected official thinks a bad idea only becomes bad when it reaches a certain size.
Still, I conclude that any time you can slam any part of Obamacare, you are doing the health of your neighbor good. The benefit may not be immediate or apparent -- but there are always long-term gains when fundamentally rotten "health" legislation takes a hit.
So let's seek out candidates who will argue consistently based on sound principles and take bigger bites out of Obamacare, Medicaid, and all federal health intrusions. Bigger bites will eat the elephants (or donkeys) faster!
To your health and liberty,
Gailon Totheroh
Editor, HealthWIRE
LibertyNews.com
I don't live in Florida and don't necessarily want to take sides. The Governor is for the expansion, the Speaker against it. Simple, right? Maybe not!
The Governor only wants the expansion for three years, 2014-2016. Just perhaps three years too long?
Yes -- because those are the years that Obamacare hits up the whole country to pay the entire tab for the extra cost in individual states. But will Floridians want to give up even the reduced payola specified by Obamacare come 2017?
Even consider the estimated 1.5 million Floridians who stand to gain coverage in 2014. Is it fair to string them along only to drop them at the end of the three-year handout? Might that incite civil turmoil if it's given and taken away?
As you have seen from the story linked above, I didn't give Speaker Weatherford much of a break -- just because he opposes the expansion. He doesn't find any problem with Medicaid per se. Too bad he doesn't support reducing Medicaid -- rather than not supporting an expansion.
So the Republicans have a fundamental problem when:
1) One such politician supports a bad idea because there's a money spigot -- and he has "compassion."
2) And the other elected official thinks a bad idea only becomes bad when it reaches a certain size.
Still, I conclude that any time you can slam any part of Obamacare, you are doing the health of your neighbor good. The benefit may not be immediate or apparent -- but there are always long-term gains when fundamentally rotten "health" legislation takes a hit.
So let's seek out candidates who will argue consistently based on sound principles and take bigger bites out of Obamacare, Medicaid, and all federal health intrusions. Bigger bites will eat the elephants (or donkeys) faster!
To your health and liberty,
Gailon Totheroh
Editor, HealthWIRE
LibertyNews.com
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