Crossing State Lines

A few days ago, Florida Republican Senator (and maybe wannabe-Republican-Vice-Presidential-candidate) Marco Rubio said “RomneyCare” was not nearly as bad as the Affordable Care Act because if you didn’t like the individual mandate in Massachusetts, at least you could leave the state. The only option now – if you disagree with last week’s Supreme Court decision, is to leave the country.


Yeah, right. Leave your home state. Leave your job. Your home. Your family.

Today, Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott said his state will opt out of parts of the Affordable Care Act:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Rick Scott has decided to opt out of parts of the Affordable Care Act that are optional for states. 

That means Florida will not expand its Medicaid program to cover an extra one million Floridians. Plus, the state will not create an insurance exchange to help people find health coverage.  

Gov. Scott believes those parts of the health care law will raise the cost of living for Floridians and hurt the private sector's ability to create jobs.   

"We're trying to do things that help the state grow jobs. We're trying to help Floridians who don't want their cost of living to go up and these pieces of legislation from Obamacare don't help those goals at all. In fact, they probably hurt those goals," said Scott's spokesman, Lane Wright. 

Just waiting for Sen. Rubio to tell the good citizens of Florida to leave the state, if they disagree with Gov. Scott’s decision…