For months, Republicans in Florida had been entrenched in a contentious battle over the state’s healthcare system. When you hear “fight over healthcare” you may immediately assume that Republicans were battling just Democrats, but oddly they were fighting with each other too. Now, the war is over and the losers are almost a million of the state’s working poor.

After a heated six-hour debate on Friday, House Republicans voted 72-41 against a Senate bill to expand Medicaid to roughly 800,000 low-income citizens. The Senate wanted to expand the program and offer people the opportunity to buy health insurance from private companies in a statewide exchange, but the House (overrun by members of the Tea Party) said no.

Governor Skeletor, whose reelection campaign largely focused on offering the poor health insurance, turned his back on the voters who reelected him to side with the House and their plan to kill the poor.

The battle over Medicaid expansion in the Sunshine State got really ugly in the last month or so and had everyone bracing for a possible government shutdown. Last month it was so bad that members of the House violated that state’s sacred Sunshine Law by banning the press from a meeting about the expansion. Then, making matters worse, they stormed out of a budget negotiation, forcing Skeletor to hold special legislative session.