Bobby Jindal’s big blow for states’ rights

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Posted at 04:32 PM ET, 06/29/2012
Bobby Jindal’s big blow for states’ rights
By Greg Sargent

As you know, Bobby Jindal has reacted to the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare by declaring defiantly that his state won’t be implementing the law.

“We’re not moving forward with the exchanges,” Jindal said. “Instead, we’re going to do everything we can to defeat President Obama, get rid of ObamaCare.”

This has been greeted mostly as states’ rights bluster designed to appeal to a national conservative audience. But it’s also worth noting that in striking this great blow for Louisiana’s rights, he is basically ensuring that the federal government will come in and build the exchange in his state for him — potentially without his input on how best to tailor it to his own constituents.

<..> Update: To be a bit clearer, the irony is that in the name of states’ rights, Jindal may end up ceding to the federal government some of the control over health reform his state might otherwise have been able to exercise.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum..._blog.html

Jindal is the classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
How are those useless berms coming along Bobby?

[Brewman_Jax]

Like the rest of his fellow conservatives, Piyush hates the idea of having PBO doing anything for the people and having to follow the law. Like noted at the end of the article, he has a better than average chance of ceding control to the Federal Government that the law had ACTUALLY given him.

What a maroon!

[jaxx]

Add Rick Scott. I'm sure other red state governors will opt out too....and the federal government will come in and take care of the people the govs would let go without health care.

Gov. Scott says Florida will not comply with health care law or expand Medicaid
By Gary Fineout, NBCMiami.com

Florida Gov. Rick Scott now says Florida will do nothing to comply with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and will not expand its Medicaid program. The announcement is a marked changed after the governor recently said he would follow the law if it were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Florida is not going to implement Obamacare. We are not going to expand Medicaid and we're not going to implement exchanges,'' Scott's spokesman Lane Wright told The Associated Press on Saturday. Wright stressed that the governor would work to make sure the law is repealed.

<..> Scott said the state will not expand the Medicaid program in order to lower the number of uninsured residents, nor will Florida set up a state-run health exchange, a marketplace where people who need insurance policies could shop for them.

"We care about having a health care safety net for the vulnerable Floridians, but this is an expansion that just doesn't make any sense,'' he told Fox host Greta Van Susteren.

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...icaid?lite

[NJMaverick]

cutting of America's nose because he thinks it will benefit him, his ideology and party. Republicans and right wingers have shown over and over again that they hate America, Americans and what we stand for. The only thing they love is themselves and their billionaire masters

[suzie]

Rick Scott is not an ideologue--he's a crook.

Last year he signed a law that turned Florida Medicaid control over to the managed care interests, even though pilot projects had shown that this process raised costs instead of controlling them. The law was supposed to benefit Solantic, Scott's emergency clinics that he sold for $65 million at the same time.

If Scott doesn't want to expand Medicaid, it's likely that there's something about the managed care approach under his new Florida law that he doesn't want publicized--which would happen with the new expansion.

The good thing about Scott is that he acts like a con man, not an ideologue. Which is not good for Republicans.

[jaxx]

Here comes Branstad to the righties dopey side:

Terry Branstad, Iowa Governor, Won't Expand Medicaid In Light Of Supreme Court Ruling
Posted: 07/02/2012 12:51 pm Updated: 07/02/2012 6:57 pm

WASHINGTON -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad told reporters in Iowa on Monday it's "doubtful" that the Hawkeye State will expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it doesn't have to.

In an interview Friday with The Huffington Post, Branstad was even more forceful.

"We're opposed to it and we're not going to have any part of it," Branstad said. "But we're taking our own approach. We want to put our own effort together to be the healthiest state, and we're willing to help people who are willing to help themselves. But we're certainly not going to buy into this federal effort. We're going to fight it in every way we can."

<..> Branstad, while rejecting the Medicaid expansion, has accepted federal funds "to prepare and plan for an exchange, and taken steps to prepare for the implementation of an exchange," said spokesman Tim Albrecht.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02...lp00000003