Rick Scott is the Tea Party Governor of Florida and an avid participant in the lawsuit to declare the health care law unconstitutional. He wants to deny you your right to incredibly expensive but possibly government-subsidied health insurance in 2014 regardless of pre-existing conditions. All the while -- wait for it -- getting highly-subsidized health insurance from the State of Florida. No one could have predicted...
Oh, and that's $8/month for both he and his wife.
According to the Miami Herald
Gov. Rick Scott, a critic of the federal health care overhaul, is paying less than $400 a year for health insurance for himself and his wife...
Scott is among nearly 32,000 people in state government who pay relatively low health insurance premiums. It's a perk that is available to high-ranking state officials, including those in top management at all state agencies. Nearly all 160 state legislators are also enrolled in the program that costs just $8.34 a month for individual coverage and $30 a month for family coverage.
Okay, he's a state employee, and state employees get almost completely subsidized health insurance I get it. Bzzzt!
Rank-and-file state workers pay $50 a month for individual coverage and $180 a month for family coverage....
So the more money Florida pays you, the less you pay for health insurance. That certainly seems fair. At least in TeaGaltLand. No wonder Governor Scott is opposed to the Federal plan, which inexplicably is set up backasswards: in that plan, the less money you make, the less you will have to pay for health insurance coverage (assuming you qualify for subsidies). What a bizzare system.
How could any self-respecting Tea Party Governor of a state which
... has one of the highest uninsured rates in the nation, according to data released last year by the U.S. Census
support a plan that provides poor people instead of rich people, subsidies to buy health insurance?