Supreme Court decision bad for Scott

[Zorro]

Make no mistake about it, this was a bad U.S. Supreme Court decision for Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

No political figure in the nation has tied himself more to the defeat of President Barack Obama’s health care reform program than Scott.

Scott didn’t just lose his political gamble that the reforms would be declared unconstitutional. Now he has a major public policy problem: Implementing a law after rejecting millions of dollars in federal aid aimed at helping Florida and other states get started.

“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States is simply disappointing,” Scott said in a media statement Thursday.

More at: http://htpolitics.com/2012/06/28/supreme-court-decision-bad-for-scott/

[Jack Sprat]

1. Wasn't it Scott who was involved

in some kind of healthcare fraud a few years ago?

[HooptieWagon]

2. Yes.

[Zyzafyx]

3. Maybe he shold just Beam Up

Seriously, doesn't the guy LOOK like a Martian?

[livetohike]

5. Welcome to DU!

[Kablooie]

4. What happens if a state refuses to implement the law?

[NYC Liberal]

6. The federal government will go in and do it themselves.

[Bake]

7. Isn't there also something about the state losing its Medicaid dollars?

I think that's tied to the Medicaid expansion provisions, but I'm not sure.

Bake

[NYC Liberal]

8. The Supreme Court struck that part down…sort of.

They said the federal government cannot completely withdraw existing Medicaid funds, but future money can be tied to participation in the expansion.

A good write-up at oyez.org: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2011/2011_11_400

[avebury]

9. Mary Fallin, Gov. of Oklahoma also turned down milions of dollars in federal aid. Her

response to the ruling was about on par with Scott.