Florida Governor Rick Scott Refuses To Implement ObamaCare, Cites Expense

I think all governors who refuse to comply should have to withdraw all federally funded support from the Federal govt.

I thought the Cons were in the party of 'following the law'. The law's been dutifully passed by Congress, and the judicial process is over. Isn't it interesting that a guy who ran a company that was defrauding Medicare is willing to break the law again?

WHAT NEXT? I HAVE 2 HEALTH CARE INS..BUT I DON'T FEEL WE SHOULD BE GIVEN A DECISION IF YOU DON'T GET INS YOUR GONNA BE TAXED! I FEEL THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

What the governor should know is that Europe has this type of mandated health care laws for decades. Look at Airbus for example. Mandated health care and they're chomping at Boeing's heels.

Just another tea-partier with sour grapes. WHAAAAAAA!

This guy is a criminal that has committewd medicare fraud and should be in prison. He steered the drug testing for welfare to his wifes business and the idiots in Florida have not run him out of town like the thief that he is.

SONJA YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY?? STATES WILL NOT GET MONEY FROM THE GOV. FOR MEDICADE..I HAVE SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE THAT SELL FOOD STAMPS,GET HUD & MOVE IN THE WHOLE FAMILY. MY TAXES ARE TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE THAT CAN'T DO IT WITH OUT HELP. HUD ,FOOD STAMPS & MEDICADE SHOULD HAVE A TIME LIMIT & IF THEY RECIEVE THESE FREE!! THINGS FROM THEE GOV. THEN DRUG TESTING SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM!!!

Rick Scott and his RepubliTHUGS have been humbled by the Supreme Court. He is trying to save face.

The more government involvement, the less rights we have. So to cut back on health care cost, are they going to ban all fried, sugary foods, tobacco and alcohol then issue an extra FAT tax? Are we NOT being taxed into infinity yet? Besides, since WHEN is the government efficient and good at what it does? Anything it touches turns to crap.

STOP YELLING

STOP YELLING

LOl David!

LOl David!

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iVE HAD MS FOR 33 YEARS, IM ALREADY COVERED BY MEDICAID, GOV SCOTT IS DISRESPECTFUL, AND ONLY CARES ABOUT THE 1%, WHICH IS HIM. I WISH HIM TO BECOME HOMELESS AND INDOGENT, THEN HE CAN RECONSIDER HIS REBELLIOUS NON UNITIVE WAYS. DISRESPECTFUL….HE PROLLY HASn't READ A WORD ABOUT IT, JUST DRIVEN BY HIS CONSTITUENTS…

Bobbie, for every excuse you can come up with I can come up with a rich person cheating with much larger #s…so many people argue with this example but most are following someone else's perception rather than the truth.

A TIME LIMIT? THANKS I GUESS AS MY M.S. GETS WORSE, I WILL GET LESS… THE PROBLEM IS THE PEOPLE ON IT THAT DONT NEED IT…THANKS FOR YOUR HEART=WARMING, NON THOUGHTFUL COMMENT

Anyway you are missing the point altogether. When Congress passes a law, the president signs it and the Supreme Court finds it legal why would then governors suddenly deemed themselves smarter and decide not to follow the law? Isn't that illegal?

I'm wondering if all of you complaining did this much whining when you had to pay for your car insurance?

I'm wondering if all of you complaining did this much whining when you had to pay for your car insurance?

OH AND I JUST GOT DX W BREAST CANCER, I THANK GOD IM COVERED B4 THE FIT HITS THE SHAM

Bobbie the Supreme Court has decided that it is CONSTITUTIONAL so no ones constitutional rights are being violated. This law will stop people from freeloading on the health system by making them all have to have insurance. I have been paying more because I buy my own insurance and people that don't show up at the emergency room with a cold because they know they will be treated and they won't pay for it. This is the same kind of arguement that the Republicans used when Medicare was introduced in the 60's and everyone that can get Medicare uses it but the Republicans are still trying to get rid of it

Bobbie, I'm trying to follow your logic here. So if a person can afford health insurance but doesn't…and ends up using taxpayer $ for medical care that's ok with you? But if the govt expects this same person to BUY their own insurance because they can afford to..you are against it? And what about all the other aspects of this law…are you for or against the part of the law about preexisting medical conditions NOT being allowed to be refused by insurance companies?

Why yes I did. My car insurance is 3 x more expensive than it is in Indiana even after I dropped two of the cars down from full coverage to liability only. So yep, yep, I do complain each time

the tax will not be enforced….and taxing is constitutional

Well our defense is considered superior to all other defenses of the world…NASA program brought us many inventions, we have the safest food in the world, etc. If you want all of this to go away, then vote that way.

By the way lets drop all laws requiring us to behave too since its so inefficient. See how you'd feel driving down dirt roads, having uninsured motorists hit you and no laws to deal with that…lets free all prisoners because the govt runs that, etc.

Maybe all of you that are spouting incorrect information and Right Wing fear mongering talking points should read the bill to find out how it will help all of us once it all goes into effect. It is already helping millions of people by allowing kids to stay on their folks insurance till they are 26 and banning insurers from not paying for treatment on kids with pre-existing conditions.

All you naysayers, I pray to the Heavens you don't wind up with a kid that has a "pre-existing condition" without Obamacare, which basically gives those of us with ADD, Bipolar Disorder, and AVM's, Lupus, etc., affordable healthcare that the private companies won't give us.

Bitch and whine about it then. I ~dare~ you.

Take off the caps lock. It is one of them buttons on your keyboard.

Out of curiosity Bobbie (please don't take this as an attack), do you feel as if people should be given emergency care if they don't have insurance? I only ask because a lot of people against health care feel it is acceptable to receive $100,000 in care and then ditch out on the bills, leaving health care insurance buyers to pay there bills. Again not an attack I am just curious to understand more people's logic.

Its that more expensive..why would it be so different?

You made me laugh! Thanks!

Then I have done my job because if you don't laugh this all gets a little too tense

Just doing what he was elected to do Steve, oppose Obama's socialism.

since SCOTUS said the feds can't punish the states by not funding their medicade……the law has no teeth for the states and you will see a lot of this.

Think all you want. The SCOTUS ruled that they can opt out.

They are going to opt out on something that is funded 100% by the feds the first 3 years to punish their own constituents. Sounds like a plan of sheer genius

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Hey I have an idea. This may sound crazy but…..IF U WANT HEALTHCARE THEN PAY FOR IT YOURSELF.

Sonja Funakura Guess what?? people can choose not to drive. If they don't drive they don't have to pay for something they don't need and/or want. WoW! Freedom! What a concept?!

Randy Nold Excellent Randy. I agree socialism doesn't work never has never will and further more it's anti-freedom. These people who support this garbage obviously don't like free societies. Maybe Steve Titus and others like him should leave.

Allen Your a complete idiot. It sounds as if you have your head up somebodies a**. Wake up and smell the roses. Obama is driving this country, economy, and freedom into extension. People like you are the ones empowering him. Hopefully come January we will have Mitt Romney at the wheel.

I agree with you Lori. People like Sonja would prefer to give up what little freedom we have left. The government is good at defense because it's only one objective. NASA has brought us a waste of tax $$ I worked for NASA not too long ago. Uninsured motorists? give me a break, those people have to simply face the cosequences as they already do and have before government involvement. OSHA, a waste of $$$ accidents in the work place had been dropping since 1903, why was OSHA created? DEA waste of $$$. Prisoners??? There are too many people in prison for petty non-violent crimes, waste of $$$. Safe food??? really?? People were just fine buying beef, milk, etc. before government involvement in 1906 with the FDA. Keep it going Sonja.

Allen I'm sure that you have read and UNDERSTAND the thousands of pages of the bill. Who do you think your kidding. Again, wake up

Sonja. That is a stupid statement.

I guess you like being hit with another TAX which Obama promised we would not get. So much for promises from a LIAR. Keep spinning Obama.

Obama's not a thief????

Patti Sorry to hear of your your situation but I am not one of the 1% and I vehemently dislike Obamacare. I worked all my life and have raised a family. We have had our medical problems and have worked through them. My wife and I have sacrificed everything for our kids. The first thing I told them when they were looking for a job was make sure they have health insurance. Everyone should be responsible for their insurance needs.

Sonja Funakura Before I write anything further, HOW OLD ARE YOU. You have the reasoning of a 10 year old. DUH

I cannot believe so many people are against a free society in which all people should control their own lives according to their own values. It's amazing that each one of you will be very negative about the restrictions on freedom except for those that benefit you. AMAZING! Stop increasing the scope of government. We will all lose, that is a fact.

Allen, have YOU even read all 2500+ pages of Obama's great tax?!? Obviously not!! This monstrosity is not good for anyone!!And has nothing really to do with "health care". That's just a smoke screen to cover up what's really going on with Obamacare. New agencies to take away yours or my freedoms! As a wise man said over 3500 yrs ago – the thinking of a wise man is to the right and the thinking of a fool is to the left. You decide which you are – Left-wing or Right-wing. As for me, I try to avoid foolishness and fools.

Yes I do! Especially when I have to pay higher premiums because other people who own the same type car as I do have accidents. I have never had one yet I have to pay ever increasing premiums to cover the cost of their accidents – just so they can have "accident forgiveness"! That's like the credit card companies who force me to pay higher prices for everything I buy so a select few who qualify for their cards can get "rewards" for using their cards for everything! It's known as "theft of personal property" and I, for one, am tired of corrupt judges allowing this unconstitutional behavior to continue!

Patti, I''m sorry you have MS; but where do you get off telling me I have to cover your medical bills?!? Governor Scott is NOT disrespectful, nor does he care about only the 1 percent! You on the other hand seem to think you have the right to force me to pay for what only benefits you!! News flash, sweetheart!! You're only ENTITLED to your life, your liberty, and the pursuit (not guarantee of) your happiness. Everything else you work for or don't get! That's the true American way. And, news flash again. Obamacare has really NOTHING to do with true health care. It's a TAX – plain and simple. A way for him to get rich off of other people's money while promising better health care; which he knows he can't provide nor will even try to.

Yea, and look at Greece, Russia, and the UK (they pay $4.50 a gal in tax on gasoline). You really want to be socialistic like them?!? Airbus is only chomping at an American company's heels because Obama has made it nearly impossible for companies to survive here. Wake up and smell the stench! Oh, and by the way – anyone over 40 in most countries with this type of "healthcare" are terrified of going to the hospital, or even the doctor, for fear they'll go in "healthy" and come out in a body bag!! Why do you think so many American doctors have been quietly going to Mexico and building hospitals and clinics over the last few years! Think they might know something YOU don't?!?

The tax/ penalty that anyone will pay is for not getting their own insurance. You have no understanding of anything included in this legislation yet you want to start calling me names .The You are the one that an ignorant idiot with your head up your a$$. This increases personal responsibility so that everyone has to participate in the insurance system instead of freekloading on it when they want to go to the emergency room to get treatment and stick the rest of us paying off thei bill

Spoken like a true believer in the FOX lying machine. Yes me and people like me are empowering him to make changes that need to be done. You prefer to back someone that has no plan at all and is the originator of this healthcare plan to start with. He doesn't have enough balls to stand up to the Tea Party and accept what he has done in his past. It works in Massachussettesand it will work for the nation.

Donald, its not about the tax. Nothing in life comes free my friend. This is about giving other people the opportunity to have medical insurance just like you and scot. If you don't pay now for medical issues, you will pay later eventually. So lets all pull our resources together to ensure that when the unthinkable happens, everyone is assured that he/she does not go bankrupt because of sickness. You don't know what is going to happen to you tomorrow. Do you? Its not perfect, but its the first step. Its the right thing to do.

Donald how is that government run health care plan working for you and that government run retirement plan. You are the same kind of people that screeched that Medicare would ruin this country, yet I am sure you are taking advantage of that plan now

Pamela Avery As a tea party member I am sure that you understand exactly nothing about this nor do you care to try. You even got your pointless quote screwed up. You and your little faction are just pissed because the SCOTUS went Obama's way on this ruling. You can call me all the names that you want but this is going to happen and there is nothing you can do to stop it even though your party is actively trying to cheat the system with voter suppression. People already see that Rmoney is a clown with no plan and no class

Farrell hey I already do and this bill makes it a Mandate for everyone to buy insurance and quit freeloading on the system and make me pay for it. The whole plan was thought up by Mitt to start with and most of the provisions of it were Republican ideas that Obama used to try to get theit cooperation but as soon as he did that they were against their own plan. The Republican party is the most disingenuine buch of hypocrit ever

Bobbie you should read the law. The states WILL get money from the Federal Government for Medicaid. As a matter of fact, for the first 3 years (beginning in 2014), it will be 100% covered. Then after that it goes to 90% then eventually to 70%. Why not try it? See what happens? If there are issues, reasonable people should be able to work that out. Fortunately for all Floridians, Rick Scott doesn't call the shots. If he fails to implement the LAW, then the Federal Government can step in and implement it for him. Or the voters can just vote him out, which is probably exactly what we'll do.

Well you're making a fool of yourself by using the excuse that the LAW has too many pages and it's too much to read. Come on. Can't you do better than that? LMAO

Randy Nold the voters of Florida will decide whether or not ACA is implemented. And there are plenty of uninsured Floridans who expect their governor to abide by the law, whether he agrees with it or not.

farrell_robertj Yes fire and poliice protection, public schools, public streets have been dismal failures in this free society that you speak of. When you are eligeble for Social Security and medicare make sure that you decline to use those socialist programs as well. All you morons screeching about how you don't want to live in a socialist society have no clue where you have been living. Maybe it is you that should leave this country for maybe Mexico . Can't go to Canada because they are socialists

Where do you get this ridiculess information. You are willing to put all your faith into the hands of corporations to do the right thing and not poison you with tainted beef and unsafe working conditions.Your opinions are ridiculess in their complete lack of sense

People are OBLIVIOUS to how our infrastructure has been failing. Our gov't isn't even dealing with that problem. When you see sagging powerless it means that the line is overloaded and there has been no new power plants built in 20 years. Our roads ARE crumbling, our mass transit is constantly breaking down and barely held together with Duct tape (see SF's muni buses article in the SF Examiner), Bart has been having MORE breakdowns and delay, The sewer under SF is over 100 years old and bricked which must be checked regularly. The levees around the San Joaquin valley are patched together too. If those levvys fail, it will devastate the CA agriculture for years to come. YET they want to build a bullet train in CA? Our defense may be good BUT WTF are we defending? roads full of pot holes, crumbling schools, and long unemployment lines? Ever consider that our gov't could essentially turn our military onto us if they wanted? Look what has happened with Occupy or further back to Vietnam war Protests. Safe foods? Really? we've got giant companies like monsanto that value profits over human lives, stomp out small farmers and variety in our food supplies not only here but globally. The FDA is made up of former executives of large corporations allowing them to police THEMSELVES. IF the gov't can't make money off something, they make it illegal. Do people even realize that our food is NOT really food but rather artificial flavored mass marketed pretty PRODUCTS? We would rather have "pretty food" than healthy whole natural foods. Uninsured motorist STILL drive the streets, our laws are archaic and arbitrarily enforced and often harder on minorities. The criminals RUN our government already, line their own pockets with our hard earned money and it's about time WE run them out of office! STOP following the mass ignorant consumerism, vanity with the flag waving sheeple who like to pull the red white and blue wool over everyone's eyes and call it "patriotism".

That's funny Pamela. I JUST watched a Fareed Zakarhia special about health care in other countries where nobody pays a dime in insurance premiums or for co-pays. It's totally free. And the hospitals look like a hotel room. In what country, besides America, are we going in healthy and coming out in a body bag? This sounds like more fear mongering to scare the old folks.

The argument then is, who pays for the uninsured sick people and the answer is YOU TAXPAYERS, i dont know how to fix it, a system that is broken for spo long….its driving health care costs thru the roof. Thats why people dont have insurance cuz its too expensive. I hope you never have to face a health crisis in either of your families. Because if my coverage is taken away, and Scott is threatening to cut medicaid, i guess im not a worthy human…. i think all the senators should have the same care as everyone else also…
Pamela Scott was already caught in a medicaid fraud scheme….thats why disrespectful comes to mind…he just corrupt and got away with it….and btw you have no clue or are sorry about my MS…i dont need ur pity…just understanding of terminal illness. guess ur healthy as a horse…god bless us all

Donald how's romney care grab you?

romney care…the template for obama care

What a completely biased article! Regardless of the position toward the issue, proper journalism allows the reader to take a position on the issue.

How is it socialism to tell you to buy insurance from a PRIVATE company? That Randy is the opposite of socialism.

Donald Lambert Oh yeah!! Romney!! That will be MUCH better!! (note the sarcasm)

farrell_robertj Ummmm….I'm pretty sure that is part of the plan.

Wow! Not only am I sorry for your MS AND Breast cancer, but I am sorry for the replies on here as well! My educated guess is that with a disease like that it is near impossible for you to find or keep a job, making it also impossible to pay for insurance. I'm not sure what Pamela and Donald think you should do under these circumstances…crawl under a rock? Die? That's RIGHT!!! There are millions of people in this country who will DIE without insurance!! I know it's so easy to turn your head and pretend it's not your problem, it's so easy to shell out 63 cents a day to some child in Africa while one dies here in your own country!!! You would give more to your church for their missions overseas and ignore what's going on right under your nose!
No one likes it when there a folks who take advantage of the system and I know that is how people who are on welfare and medicaid a represented, but there are so many people and families who really NEED the help and we cannot let a few bad seeds ruin it for them! I for one have zero problem with paying into this once great nation of ours. I have very little, but I am happy knowing that at least part of the money that the government taxes me is going towards helping those who cannot help themselves and to keeping little tummies full!
You have to ask yourself…WWJD??
I hope all goes well for you Patti!! I for one am glad that I could help with your medical bills!
God Bless!!!

Governor Scott didn't do anything different than he has already done before. He refuses to help the least fortunate among us. He has done nothing but cut services for the disabled, elderly and the poor, while making sure all the corporations get funding without any proof that what he supports will actually bring the new jobs that he states we will have. If you voted for this Governor, go look in the mirror. Now you know what an idiot looks like.
I have lived in Florida most of my life and I must say for the first time, I am ashamed to. This Governor and his policies (or lack there of) are going to ruin this state. When did it become more popular to hurt the most vulnerable in society, then to do the right thing. This Governor has consistently cut any services for the disabled and the elderly under the guise of we spend too much on them. Since when was supporting those who cannot support themselves (through no fault of their own) become a bad thing? Well, since this Governor came into office. We are allowing the same thing to happen to the less fortunate in our society that Hitler did. Too drastic you say? I am crazy you say? When you state that they do not deserve the services and you state that we cannot afford to pay for those who cannot help themselves, then you are stating they are less than you and I. If they are less than and we cannot support them, then what do you do? Sorry, sir your grandmother is not worth paying for anymore or your daughter has an IQ of 69, so she isn't worthy of the money. Let's fire up the showers. Not trying to offend anyone, but we are headed down the same road and if we don't stop and take a look at what we are doing, it will be too late.
I am not a tax and spend liberal, but I know the difference between supporting those who need it and supporting the money laundering lobbyists and politicians. Yes, I said money laundering. When you are committing crimes against humanity with my tax payer dollars, that is nothing short of washing money to benefit you friends. Are we all so blind that we can't see the forest for the trees? I have been a republican my whole life and honestly, the way this state and a lot of the country is heading, I am ashamed to even say that.
I pay my taxes and I have an adult child with a disability, who receives services from the state of Florida. She cannot work, she cannot do most things by herself, yet this state has consistently cut her funding (50%) over the last 4 years. Based on Governor Scott's opinion, she doesn't deserve to live a decent life, because she doesn't contribute enough to society. Again, sound familiar? Go back to 1940 and read your history books. The first ones to go were the disabled.
We need to all really think about what we want this country and this state to look like. We need to think about the fact that all of us and our parents will get old (if not already) and we will need support and care to survive. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Not everyone can run one of the largest healthcare companies in the world and commit Medicare fraud and become the Governor of one of the largest states in the union, instead of going to prison. The majority of us work our butts off to earn a living, cloth our children, pay our medical bills and make our insurance payments. Many of us don't have insurance or the ability to make a decent wage. The way I was brought up is you help those in need. I don't mean the people who use the system to get out of being responsible, commit fraud or use the system to avoid being productive members of society. I mean those who, through no fault of their own, cannot do those things. When we start turning away those people, that is when we need to really think about what the hell we are doing.
Do we really want to cut the legs out from under the most vulnerable among us? We are all better than that. Please contact Governor Scott and tell him to expand Medicaid. My daughter deserves our help.

You'll cover them anyway Pamela. Patti will end up at the emergency room with chronic problems, clogging up the system, making the hospital take a loss, and driving up your healthcare costs at a much faster rate. It's a much better plan if we all have basic health insurance. So grow up and stop pretending that you don't live in a modern, interconnected society. And by the way, your callous comments don't seem very "Christian", do they? But I can see you're not really worried about being a good testimony are you Pamela? You know, I've never understood how the average Christian becomes a "screw you, I got mine" Tea Party Extremist, but I guess Southern Baptists are a breed all to themselves.

Id much prefer to be healthy and working….your day will come my dear…. i wont apologize for having an incurable disease , especially to anyone who lacks a heart…

THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY COMMENT ON HEALTH CARE. iF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING MEDICARE WILL BE GONE. i'll be glad to give any politician my $598.00 a mth & let them live on it!!!

THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY COMMENT ON HEALTH CARE. iF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING MEDICARE WILL BE GONE. i'll be glad to give any politician my $598.00 a mth & let them live on it!!!

I'm against medical care as we know it gone. If some one can't afford health care they should get medicade.

let them apply for medicade!!! my problem is selling of food stamp's & people getting hud for them & their children & moving in 10 other people.. there's plenty of familie's that would love to have this chance,but miss using what tax payer's are paying for don't sit well with me…

AND JAME'S THE TAX PAYER'S ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE INS.

I am pretty sure that you don't have a clue about any of this conversation that is going on in here or in the rest of the country. Maybe just learn a little about what the bill is about and then come back and talk

I am pretty sure that you don't have a clue about any of this conversation that is going on in here or in the rest of the country. Maybe just learn a little about what the bill is about and then come back and talk

Well put! Thank you Ven!

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IS WHAT IT'S GONNA BE..AS A DR SAID ON THE NEW'S HEALTH CARE AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE GONE!!!!!

PATTI, I'M SORRY TO HEAR YOU HAVE MS. I HAVE A SISTER & BROTHER WITH IT.. WITH THIS NEW HEALTH CARE BILL THERE WILL BE NO MEDICADE YOU WILL BE BUYING HEALTH INS. OR PAY A FINE ..THIS WASN'T THOUGHT THROUGH AND ONLY BENIFIT'S THE INS CO..GOD BLESS YOU.

SCOTT HASN'T DONE ANY THING DIFF. YOUR RIGHT..THAT'S WHY HE HAS SUCH A BAD RATING IN THE POLE'S….

AMEN DONALD..

Sonja Funakura
I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR READING BUT THE DEFENSE IS NOT THE BEST IN THE WORLD..MY HUSBAND SPENT 26YR'S IN THE SERVICE AND LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THE BENIFIT'S ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY..1 OUT OF EVERY FOR HOMELESS ON THE STREET'S ARE VETERAN'S!!CAR INS. IS A TOTALLY DIFF. THAN HEALTH CARE….

how can they be responsible for their insurance needs when it depends on having a job?

he stole that election. I know the people of florida did not vote for this jerk, especially with his criminal history.

Medicare is socialized medicine too and take off the caps lock it just makes you sound like a screaming lunatic .It does not make your point more forceful or clearer just pathetic.

Do any of you think for one minute that the monies you are "taxed" for healthcare will ever actually go to healthcare and then come back to you in services? Or will you be robbed of your hard earned money, put in a line to wait and wait for years and then only if you have any money left, you can pay privately for a surgery, like they have to do in Poland where the government controls it!

Denise, you are uninformed. oK so there is a fancy showroom, and how many years must one wait to be invited in to it? You may be already dead when your TURN comes!

best program: no insurance, pay your doctor directly. unfortunately with the regulations and insurance the government is putting on him, he must charge more to break even, so the regulations need to go…

I'm glad states are opposing obamacare. It shows they have common sense.

I'm glad states are opposing obamacare. It shows they have common sense.

Pamela Avery HAVE YOU? Do you even have a copy so that if you disagree with someones opinion or comment on the issue, you could at least look up that particular topic and have SOME idea of what your talking about. (I have my copy, so I don't have to listen to lies from people who at the moment, seem to include you… I can read it for myself) "New agencies to take away yours or my freedoms"… wow… are you sure your not talking about banks or insurance companies? Cause they take away your freedoms by enslaving you to grossly overinflated interest rates and premiums and other costly expenses that literally hold down good hard working honest people for their whole lives. What about the private profiteers who rape our country for all it's wealth without any desire to pay their fare share? That's right wing policy not left wing policy…

Pamela Avery What about the private profiteers who rape our country for all it's wealth without any desire to pay their fare share? That's right wing policy not left wing policy…

BY TAKING AWAY MEDICARE???I GET $580.00 A MTH IN MEDICARE COULD YOU LIVE ON THIS???
THIS INTO WHAT DONALD COMMENTED ON.

AMEN LORI !!!!

Sonja Funakura Our food is very unsafe GMO Mansanto crops and the US Defense budget cost is twice that of the rest of the world combined. A small portion of that money would be more than adewquate to remediate all of the world's social and economical needs and guess what Sonja, I am going to vote that way.

Sonja Funakura While we're at it Sonja. Maybe it would be good to go back to the dirt roads, I'm old enough to remember them and we didn't have the amount of accidents we do now. As for the prisons, yea I won't go all the way there because many criminals belong there but , OVER HALF OF ALL US PRISONERS ARE ONLY THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE CAUGHT CHILLING SMOKING A LITTLE DUBEE.

So much hate for your fellow human beings. I sincerely hope that you are never in the situation where you are too sick to work, lose your job, cannot afford to feed yourself or your family much less afford healthcare. I think people who don't want to be a part of the AMERICAN PEOPLE and the AMERICAN COMMUNITY should have the right to opt out, that way Pamela doesn't have to help anyone else and none of us have to help her either. Oh, and that would mean no access to public roads, police assistance, fire fighters, the electric grid, the communal water system… none of those things that other people's taxes help to support.

That was for Pamela, not for you Patti.

Given the name of your high school, I'm not surprised by your sentiment. If you've seen all these fraudulent uses of govennment services and not reported it, you're as guilty as those committing the fraud.

Dam straight. Way to go Rick scott