Fact-checking Rick Scott on the health care law

[mfcorey1]

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman
Published on Monday, July 2nd, 2012 at 8:34 p.m.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott opposes the federal health care law, and he wants the world to know it.

So he embarked on a media blitz over the weekend, appearing on Fox News, CNN and CNBC. At each stop, he announced that he had no intention of expanding Medicaid, a health insurance program for the very poor. He also said he wouldn’t allow the state to open health insurance "exchanges," places where consumers will comparison shop for health insurance.

But in expressing his strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act, Scott also got his facts wrong. He gave a one-sided and misleading account of how much the Medicaid expansion would cost the state, badly misrepresented requirements on small businesses and used a widely debunked talking point about "rationing.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2012/jul/02/fact-checking-rick-scott-health-care-law/

[Angry Dragon]

1. Governor Fraud

I still think he looks like a penis

[murielm99]

2. I've never seen a penis with a

big, dumb smile like his. He has lots of teeth, too. Penises don't have teeth.

[WCGreen]

3. Hey, why do you hate the penis...

[djean111]

4. The sad truth is

that Scott knows he is lying and does not care because it is the initial dog-whistle to his base and to his bosses (tea party) that counts.
Every "news" outlet in the world could broadcast the truth, and his base would just say the librul media is lying.
The GOP has the lying their asses off with impunity thing down to a science. Oh wait, they don't believe in any science except screwing around with seeds and insecticides and fracking, etc. But you get my drift.

[Maraya1969]

5. How does Florida sue him to stop him? Can one person

who would be eligible for the medicare program be a plaintiff and sue Scott for taking away his rights?