[goldstategop]

We all want to help low income and disabled people get good medical care.

But expanding Medicaid without assurance it would be fully paid for would be doing them a disservice - as well as FL taxpayers who would on the hook if the promised federal funding failed to materialize.

Its convenient that there’ll be 100% federal funding while Obama is in office. In three years time, his successor can revoke the 90% commitment or Congress can cancel it. This is no time to embrace the Federal Siren promise Medicaid has an assured future.

The FL House wisely remembered the old lesson that life doesn’t come with guarantees. Not even a Medicaid expansion offer.

[ChocChipCookie]

We all want to help low income and disabled people get good medical care.

Hold on there, buddy. I've held a job of one sort or another since I was 16, same for my husband. We had to drop our health insurance last year because, with a 5K deductible and paying almost $500/month for a family of four, it became completely unaffordable. Just 2 minor health incidents (son fractured a wrist, daughter had a rare confusional migraine), we were saddled with 7K in medical bills. There has always been a safety net for the people you describe but for people like us, not so much.

[sarasmom]

Why expand Medicaid right before Obama Care actually kicks in?

Do Medicaid recipients get a longer grace period before their “earned income” tax refunds for monies not paid are devoured by mandatory minimum insurance payments?

What program pays for illegal aliens to be given expensive medical care, like kidney dialysis, while our own citizens are denied disability when they lose limbs from accident or diseases?

No, we don't ALL “want to help low income and disabled people get good medical care”, when we who pay taxes and insurance premiums can't afford to pay for marginal medical care for our selves and our families.

Free dangerous hormone pills for an elective “birth controll” method, but NO free insulin for mandatory and life maintaining common drug.