Gov. Rick Scott repeats that Florida will not implement health care exchanges

FR7 Baptist · Jul 6, 2012

MIRAMAR BEACH — Gov. Rick Scott continued on Friday to argue against setting up exchanges to help people find health insurance, saying they won't make health coverage cheaper and may not give people coverage they want.

In response to a question after a speech to newspaper editors, Scott continued to criticize the exchanges, part of the federal health care law, and repeated his position that the state won't start one.

In the larger scheme that may not matter: the law says the federal government will operate health exchanges in states that don't design their own.

Florida would have a chance to have some influence on the design of the exchange if it were to do its own, but Scott said Florida would forgo that chance because the whole idea is flawed.

"We're not going to implement the health care exchanges because it's not going to drive down the cost of health care, it's going to raise the cost," Scott said, while speaking at the Southeastern Press Convention, a meeting near Destin of newspaper editors and publishers from several southeastern states.
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LadyEagle · Jul 7, 2012

One has to remember that many seniors live in Florida. I applaud him. Hope the other states do the same as Florida. Maybe obamacare will implode.

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