Florida will reject healthcare coverage of a million of it's poorest citizens even though it is free for the first three years and eventually costs only $2,000 each if Rick Scott's number is right.
"Florida will opt out of spending approximately $1.9 billion more taxpayer dollars required to implement a massive entitlement expansion of the Medicaid program," Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office said in a Sunday evening statement.
The Affordable Care Act would have extended Medicaid to cover everyone who earns less than $14,500, regardless of whether they have children or not. That expansion, to cover higher earners, would have covered 951,622 Floridians, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
For more, see The Backlash Begins: States Start Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion by , July 2, 2012 at Wonkblog.
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