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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (116178)

6/30/2012 1:12:57 PM

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott told Fox News that expanding Medicaid
would not help the citizens of Florida.
(Jacob Langston, Orlando Sentinel file)

Gov. Rick Scott: Florida won't comply with health care law
Updated: 11:58 a.m.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott says Florida will do nothing to comply with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and will not expand its Medicaid program. The announcement is a marked changed after the governor recently said he would follow the law if it were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We're not going to implement Obamacare in Florida, we're not going to expand Medicaid because we're going to do the right thing," Scott said Friday night during an interview on Fox News. He also said the Medicaid expansion would cost Florida taxpayers $1.9 billion a year, but it's unclear how he arrived at that figure.

Emails sent to Scott's staff were not immediately returned Saturday.

Scott said the state will not expand the Medicaid program in order to lower the number of uninsured residents, nor will Florida set up a state-run health exchange, a marketplace where people who need insurance policies could shop for them.

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