High-res Florida, Opposing Health Care Act, Refuses Federal Funds Then there is Florida. Despite having the country’s fourth-highest unemployment rate, its second-highest rate of people without insurance and a $3.7 billion budget gap this year, the state has turned away scores of millions of dollars in grants made available under the Affordable Care Act. And it is not pursuing grants worth many millions more. In recent months, either Gov. Rick Scott’s administration or the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has rejected grants aimed at moving long-term care patients into their homes, curbing child abuse through in-home counseling and strengthening state regulation of health premiums. They have shunned money to help sign up eligible recipients for Medicare, educate teenagers on preventing pregnancy and plan for the health insurance exchanges that the law requires by 2014. NYTimes

Florida, Opposing Health Care Act, Refuses Federal Funds

Then there is Florida. Despite having the country’s fourth-highest unemployment rate, its second-highest rate of people without insurance and a $3.7 billion budget gap this year, the state has turned away scores of millions of dollars in grants made available under the Affordable Care Act. And it is not pursuing grants worth many millions more.

In recent months, either Gov. Rick Scott’s administration or the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has rejected grants aimed at moving long-term care patients into their homes, curbing child abuse through in-home counseling and strengthening state regulation of health premiums. They have shunned money to help sign up eligible recipients for Medicare, educate teenagers on preventing pregnancy and plan for the health insurance exchanges that the law requires by 2014.

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    This Fucking Idiot.
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    reason number 16893456 as to why I hate the governor of my home state -.- Alex Sink better come back and kick his butt...
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    more like Rick Scat
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    Marissa, I was (obvz) in Florida for the elections last fall- I knew nothing going on politically other than seeing all...
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    Totally ashamed that this is my state, where I vote, and where Lord Voldemort is governor.
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    Politics today has been one slap in the face after another.
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    RICK SCOTT IS FUCKING SATAN INCARNATE. If I believed in God I would pray every night for him to strike this fucker down.
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    He’s like Tom Riddle right now dormant until he wants to strike.
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    And somehow my parents think I’m an ingrate when I tell them how fucked up a state we live in. I hate Florida.