Posted on 07/03/2012 3:39:25 AM PDT by tobyhill
Now that the Supreme Court has given the states more flexibility concerning what parts of the Affordable Care Act they must implement, more Republican governors are confirming they plan to "opt out" of a plan intended to give millions of poor Americans health coverage.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday announced his state is opting out of an expansion of Medicaid, a joint federal-state health care program, now that the court will allow it to do so. Florida is also choosing not to build an "exchange," the state-based health insurance marketplace every state is expected to establish by 2014.
"Floridians are interested in jobs and economic growth, a quality education for their children, and keeping the cost of living low," Scott said in a statement. "Neither of these major provisions in ObamaCare will achieve those goals, and since Florida is legally allowed to opt out, that's the right decision for our citizens."
The office of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told the Charleston Post and Courier that the Palmetto State is similarly opting out of both programs. And over the weekend, Govs. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana also said they're opting out.
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Let the "Blue States" establish their little Socialist Utopia enclaves in a Cuba-like manner and we'll see how that works out for them economically and socially for them over the next ten years!
Good move, time for a migration to the blue states. The slogan used to be I had to follow my paycheck when one had to uproot to follow their job...now, the slogan is I had to follow the bennies.
I see a future of America under Obamataxcare, the Blue states have border checkpoints to levy passage taxes upon entry, they also restrict any migration of workers leaving a blue state.
Red states that have opted out bloom with economic recovery, cost of living lowers, more disposable income and most important competition to provide better services instead of the socialist ideology ruled blue states forcing its workers to mass produce the Obama green version Lada people carriers.
America will split into red/blue lines.
The blues accepting and embracing the socialist agenda, the Moslem infiltration, the Obamtaxcare pogroms.
The red states for all practical purposes will be in a cold war against the Feds, most Federal spending will stop, unions will be hunted down and mostly scrutinized to the point of near elimination.
A cold Civil War has just started whether anyone realizes it, and I support it. If the ballot box isn’t working its time to use a different box.
I was thinking the same thing too. How is medicaid ‘insurance’?
Doesn’t it just pay the medical bills of lower income people with tax money? How did Republicans allow that to be called ‘insurance’ ?
Even if states wanted to go along with creating these health care exchanges, final rules are not in place that even define what they would look like or exactly how they would function nor is the money available to run them. It is thus virtually impossible that in the next 18 months these exchanges could be up and running let alone ready to start providing health care coverage. Similarly states can now balk at expanding Medicaid eligibility. This means that by 2014 the number of people without health care insurance will skyrocket as the supposed alternatives to private insurance created by Obamacare will not be available and millions of Americans who will lose their current health insurance as a result of Obamacare’s onerous requirements. There will be utter chaos if Obamacare is implemented.
When I was a kid, COMMIE RED was associated with democraps, and true blue for Republicans.
Now, whenever I hear someone refer to a place as “Blue” I have to stop and think about which one is which, and makes me sick to my stomach when I remember the commies took our Blue.
Times have changed, times require warriors to arise, red is the warriors color.
Myself I prefer blue, but blue just does not invoke enough respect and even fear against any opposition.
We fight, or we die, “Give me liberty, or give me death” hmmmm, I seem to remember hearing that somewhere, could we say that now?
I doubt it because an overwhelming amount of people are just too timid, they have been socialized into passive sheep.
I for one may look like a sheep but I have my battle armor under the fleece, and my weapons are oild ready to use.
I agree with the picture you’ve painted but i would like to add one thing that will surely occur and probably sooner rather than later. There will be a huge fight over the electoral college and a move to go to popular vote. This won’t be to the red states benefit. It will be an attempt at coercion and a form of economic slavery.
The issue is an expansion of the eligiblity requirement for Medicaid. And getting rid of the asset test.
The PPACA projected at least HALF of the newly ‘insured’ would come from this Medicaid expansion (that means they are not going on the exchange and will not be mandated to purchase anything ... nor are they to be penalized if they don’t purchase insurance). The Supreme Court blew a big hole in their projected numbers if states refuse to expand Medicaid.
It is becoming increasingly clear that this whole charade was not about getting more people to buy insurance ... it was about getting more people on the government Medicaid rolls.
The Mutiny of 2012.
Yes we need to walk away from the electoral college until its been repaired.
It has failed to work due in major part of massive corruption, its time it took a vacation this election cycle and we use Plan B, The Popular vote.
Popular vote will work this election i think but the more people dependent on the gov the worse that becomes for us.
more like a 'grossly pre-paying for Dr visits' plan...
nice to see the Govs resisting a bit, even if its too little, too late...
once all the big insurance companies bleed enuf, maybe real insurance will make a comeback, *if* the [cough] 'tax law' [cough] is undone...[turning blue from holding my breath]...
if not, I'll have to change my race and get me some medicaid...or if my credit is ruined anyways, just start using the ER for the sniffles...
This is what Kissinger intimated when, on the eve of 2000, some interviewer asked him what his greatest fear was for the new century.
He solemnly answered, "The balkanization of the United States."
I remember being just awestruck at the perceptive nature of the prediction, when everyone else in the piece had been so glib about the future...
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