Rubio-backed insurance market covers 80 people (Obamacare covers 1.6 million in FL)

[vjtrollisback 22]

In 2008, while Democrats were declaring that the time was right for national health care reform, Marco Rubio, the speaker of the Florida House, had a ready response: Florida should build a market-based system that would help contain the cost of insurance and make it more available.

Rubio pushed his no-mandate health insurance exchange, dubbed Florida Health Choices, through the state Legislature that year. “It’s about competition, it’s about choice, and it’s about the marketplace,” he told The Palm Beach Post at the time.

Florida Health Choices, which finally opened last year, now covers 80 people.

Obamacare, which Rubio wants to repeal, covers 1.6 million in Florida alone. And 93 percent of them are subsidized.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-florida-insurance-market-117055.html

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Florida Teahadists are still leaving almost a million Floridians out in the rain that could be covered under Obamacare. Why? Because they can.

[Póg mo 1,749]

In 2008, while Democrats were declaring that the time was right for national health care reform, Marco Rubio, the speaker of the Florida House, had a ready response: Florida should build a market-based system that would help contain the cost of insurance and make it more available.

Rubio pushed his no-mandate health insurance exchange, dubbed Florida Health Choices, through the state Legislature that year. Its about competition, its about choice, and its about the marketplace, he told The Palm Beach Post at the time.

Florida Health Choices, which finally opened last year, now covers 80 people.

Obamacare, which Rubio wants to repeal, covers 1.6 million in Florida alone. And 93 percent of them are subsidized.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-florida-insurance-market-117055.html

I give him points for at least having an alternative. Something, you can't say about the Republican party. Edited April 17, 2015 by Póg mo

[vjtrollisback 22]

Florida Teahadists are still leaving almost a million Floridians out in the rain that could be covered under Obamacare. Why? Because they can.

Technical gist of how they're doing that?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Technical gist of how they're doing that?

Blocking Medicaid expansion like all the other Teahadists around the nation.

[vjtrollisback 22]

I recall, from a while ago, your Governor said yes to the expansion. That's about the time I tuned it all out so I didn't realize he had walked it back since...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I recall, from a while ago, your Governor said yes to the expansion. That's about the time I tuned it all out so I didn't realize he had walked it back since...

The Teahadist legislature told the governor to buzz off. They didn't do it. Ideologie trumps people with this crowd every time.

Edited April 17, 2015 by Mr. Big Dog