{"id":17438,"date":"2013-03-12T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2013-03-12T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:06:45","slug":"florida%e2%80%99s-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17438\/florida%e2%80%99s-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the Florida house and senate have <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2013\/mar\/11\/3\/florida-senate-panel-rejects-medicaid-expansion-ar-655554\/\" target=\"_blank\">rejected<\/a> Governor Rick Scott\u2019s plan to expand the state\u2019s Medicaid population.\u00a0 Under ObamaCare, states are promised three years worth of federal funding to cover the cost increases.\u00a0 Last week, Scott reversed his earlier opposition and accepted those terms.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Florida\u2019s Republican legislators is a welcome corrective to the knee-buckling capitulation of Scott and other GOP governors.\u00a0 Borrowing a play out of Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s budget proposals, State Senator Joe Negron is using his no vote to pivot in a new direction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This will be the beginning of a transformation of the entire Medicaid system,&#8221; committee Chairman Sen. Joe Negron said. &#8220;My goal is that we will get out of the federal Medicaid system as we know it. Now, we can&#8217;t do that all at once, but we have an opportunity to begin that process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Negron wants the state to create a basic health insurance plan for the expanded Medicaid population and require recipients to pay a sliding scale premium based on their income. He suggested using Florida Healthy Kids, a managed care program that provides health insurance to low-income children, as the vehicle for delivering the new system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Negron and his colleagues are showing real policy leadership.\u00a0 Now that Scott\u2019s dash for cash is on hold, it\u2019s time for the former health care executive to rediscover his private sector creativity and help Negron put Florida on a path toward sustainable social safety net spending.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Tampa Bay Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the Florida house and senate have rejected Governor Rick Scott\u2019s plan to expand the state\u2019s Medicaid population.\u00a0 Under ObamaCare, states are promised three years worth of federal funding to cover the cost increases.\u00a0 Last week, Scott reversed his earlier opposition and accepted those terms. The move by Florida\u2019s Republican legislators is a welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,3308,232,35,1447,2376,61],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-medicaid","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-rick-scott","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17441,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions\/17441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}