Florida governor used mother's death to execute Medicaid ruse – report
Source: Guardian
Florida governor used mother's death to execute Medicaid ruse – report
Rick Scott claimed her 2013 death led to change of heart on supporting Medicaid expansion – then he privatized the program and is looking to further gut it
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Friday 8 May 2015 16.44 EDT
In 2013, Florida governor Rick Scott’s mother died. After her death, he went on television to announce that the emotional impact of her passing had led him to change his mind and support the Medicaid expansion contained within Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Now a news agency has claimed he was lying.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that Scott’s support for Medicaid expansion was what the agency described as a “ruse” in an attempt to convince the White House to grant a waiver to allow private companies to run the federally funded health insurance program for the poor in his state.
Scott, a former hospital executive whose company was fined a record $1.7bn for Medicare fraud, is reverting to his opposition to Medicaid expansion just as his state legislature has reached an impasse over the issue.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/08/florida-governor-rick-scott-medicaid-funding
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instead he is Gov. of Florida... 
