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Watch: Rick Scott Confronted, Stumbles to Explain His Obamacare Lies

April 9, 2014
Omar Rivero

On Wednesday morning, Florida Republican Governor and Tea Party “darling”, Rick Scott, struggled to explain his campaign’s shameless Obamacare lies when confronted by a truth-seeking reporter.

The exchange centered around a claim by Rick Scott and his campaign in ads playing all across Florida that Obamacare had caused 300,000 Floridians to “lose” their health care.

Unfortunately for Rick Scott, not even insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield agrees with his deceitful assessment, even releasing a statement claiming that 60,000 of those have switched plans on their own accord, and the others received a one year extension on their old plans, meaning that nobody “lost” coverage.

Armed with this truth, the reporters pressed Scott to explain his campaign ads’ clearly misleading claim, leaving Scott struggling to change the subject.

As he usually does, the Republican governor ended the interview right after the testy exchange.

Please watch the video below:





http://www.demonews.org/watch-gov-rick-scott-stumbles-to-explain-his-obamacare-lies/




Economist Slams Tea Party Gov. Rick Scott’s Refusal to Expand Medicaid: ‘Almost Awesome in its Evilness’

April 10, 2014
Bob Cull

MIT economist Jonathon Gruber and Florida state Representative Joe Saunders (D) joined Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s Politics Nation Wednesday, to discuss the refusal by Florida and other red states to accept Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.

Gruber was already on record as saying of these states, “They are not just not interested in covering poor people, they are willing to sacrifice billions of dollars of injections into their economy in order to punish poor people. It really is just almost awesome in its evilness.”

These states have left 4.8 million people without health insurance who make too little to qualify for a subsidy under the law and too much to qualify for Medicaid without the expansion. It is yet another cruel tactic being employed by the right in the attempt to ensure that the law does not succeed.

In Florida alone, 763,890 people will fall into the Medicaid gap. They do not qualify for a subsidy nor do they qualify for Medicaid — they are the people the Medicaid expansion was intended to benefit.

read more: http://aattp.org/economist-slams-tea-party-gov-rick-scotts-refusal-to-expand-medicaid-almost-awesome-in-its-evilness/