NorthWest Florida Republican

Florida and the Federal Government currently pay for Medicaid. This accounts for nearly a quarter of the Florida budget. The Health Care bill will raise that amount by nearly $140 million a year by 2014. The year that everything is supposed to kick in.

Four years later that amount will increase to over a billion dollars a year.

Florida already spends a little over a quarter of its budget on Medicaid, and under ObamaCare that will expand by at least 50% as some 1.3 million new people enroll. Those benefits, and the burden of setting up the new exchanges, will cost Florida $149 million in 2014 and $1.05 billion annually by 2018. The state will either have to cut other priorities or raise taxes. In legal essence, ObamaCare infringes on state sovereignty and unconstitutionally conscripts state officials. – The Wall Street Journal

This is the cost that Florida will have to bear. Not the federal government.

It will have to be paid for in some manner. Most likely in the forms of new taxes since the federal government is not responsible for paying. That is one of the ways that this was made deficit neutral for the federal government. By putting as much of the burden on the states as possible.

Of course, as long as it was deficit neutral for the federal government, it was ok for Congressman Allen Boyd to vote for it. Just goes to show that he doesn’t really care what you think or want.

The SEIU would like you to thank him for voting for the Health Care bill. I think you should remind him that he used to work for us, not the Unions who gave him money, and come November we will have a new Congressman who will hopefully get the message and listen to his constituents.