re: #180 lawhawk

Rick Scott wants nothing to do with the PPACA and Medicaid expansion, which is the opposite tact of Wellpoint, which bought up Americare to become the largest manager of such services. There’s money to be made, and that’s Wellpoint’s view.

Note too that Scott (along with Rick Perry) are governors of states that have the highest rates of uninsureds - meaning they’d have the most to gain from the PPACA provisions to expand insurance to those who currently don’t have it.

And the feds are picking up most of the tab - Scott and Perry are more than willing to forgo federal funds to set up the state exchanges. They’ll then likely claim that the feds are intruding in their rights as sovereign states by providing insurance or other rhetoric.

Rick Scott is proof positive that a lot of people high up in the health care industry don’t really give a shit about actual health care.