{"id":2954,"date":"2013-01-09T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:59:41","slug":"florida-gov-rick-scott-wants-a-favor-from-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/florida-gov-rick-scott-wants-a-favor-from-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Rick Scott Wants A Favor\u2014From Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/florida-governor-inflates-cost-of-medicaid-expansion-by-2600-to-avoid-implementing-obamacare\/rick_scott\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2934\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2934\" alt=\"Rick_Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott.jpg 220w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last June, after the Supreme Court decision making the Medicaid expansion optional for the states, Scott said he won&#8217;t take the money. But when Florida hospitals realized Scott&#8217;s decision could cost them about $650 million a year in other federal payments, they started lobbying furiously to get him to change his mind. So now, after two years suing, demonizing and otherwise attacking President Barack Obama and the Democrats&#8217; health care bill, Scott wants to negotiate. He came to Washington saying that he&#8217;d like to &#8220;work with the administration to reduce the cost of health care.&#8221;\u00a0But that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, what Scott wants from Kathleen Sebelius, Obama&#8217;s secretary of health and human services, is something that might actually make Florida\u2019s dismal insurance situation\u2014nearly 4 million Floridians are uninsured\u2014even worse. Scott wants the Sebelius to give him official permission, called a waiver, to hand over the entire existing Medicaid program to private managed care companies. Don&#8217;t count on that happening.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/01\/florida-gov-rick-scott-wants-favor-obama\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gov. Rick Scott Wants A Favor\u2014From Obama | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Last June, after the Supreme Court decision making the Medicaid expansion optional for the states, Scott said he won&#8217;t take the money. But when Florida hospitals realized Scott&#8217;s decision could cost them about $650 million a year in other federal payments, they started lobbying furiously to get him to change his mind. So now,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[63,206,250,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}