Is this the same ACHA that covered the $10 million diverted by Dee and Jimbo in the Hope Florida scam, paying the entire amount owed to the federal government from the Centene Medicaid settlement? And hasn't it been pointed out that federal work requirements are for states with expanded Medicaid, which Florida has not done? Also, work requirements end up costing a pretty penny to administer -- as Georgia is finding out (A similar effort by Reagan was an abysmal failure, but apparently old man Gaetz doesn't remember.)
BTW: What the heck is going with the Gainesville regional utilities? The elected officials in Alachua want to keep it municipally owned and the voters said the same thing in a plebiscite. Why does MAGA Tallahassee want to muck things up? (This is a sensitive topic in Jax where the former head of the Florida GOP and then-mayor Lenny Curry tried to sell off our municipally owned JEA.)
I believe the Republicans no longer refer to this as "kicking people off public health insurance". It is now called "lifting people off of government assistance", just like Trump bragged about doing for the millions they kicked off of SNAP benefits. Interestingly, this is essentially the same scam that "Hope Florida" was designed to carry out...
I noticed the shift to "lift", too. You might imagine that MAGAs would be concerned about having to hire enough help to monitor their Medicaid subjects -- although with DeSantis in charge, the state will just pile up the work on the existing force and pay extra for management overtime. (Plus, Dee will give them all long holiday weekends.)
Yeah, that's the real irony ain't it? More often than not, the horrible policies that the Republican party enacts to cut taxes, funding, immigration, regulations, etc…. end up costing immensely more money than had they not done anything at all. They immediately jump when the wealthy who own them tell them to do so, yet never bother to take even just a few minutes to consider the logical consequences of those actions.
For example, turning all of our state colleges into essentially conservative, “Christian" indoctrination centers, driving away international students (who also pay the most), and outlawing DEI programs and speech that they dislike will inflict long-term reputational harm on those schools. The best and brightest from around our country and the rest of the world will refuse to come to Florida for education. It will take decades to reverse that reputational harm, but they don't care because they got their immediate short term "win”.
Is this the same ACHA that covered the $10 million diverted by Dee and Jimbo in the Hope Florida scam, paying the entire amount owed to the federal government from the Centene Medicaid settlement? And hasn't it been pointed out that federal work requirements are for states with expanded Medicaid, which Florida has not done? Also, work requirements end up costing a pretty penny to administer -- as Georgia is finding out (A similar effort by Reagan was an abysmal failure, but apparently old man Gaetz doesn't remember.)
BTW: What the heck is going with the Gainesville regional utilities? The elected officials in Alachua want to keep it municipally owned and the voters said the same thing in a plebiscite. Why does MAGA Tallahassee want to muck things up? (This is a sensitive topic in Jax where the former head of the Florida GOP and then-mayor Lenny Curry tried to sell off our municipally owned JEA.)
I believe the Republicans no longer refer to this as "kicking people off public health insurance". It is now called "lifting people off of government assistance", just like Trump bragged about doing for the millions they kicked off of SNAP benefits. Interestingly, this is essentially the same scam that "Hope Florida" was designed to carry out...
I noticed the shift to "lift", too. You might imagine that MAGAs would be concerned about having to hire enough help to monitor their Medicaid subjects -- although with DeSantis in charge, the state will just pile up the work on the existing force and pay extra for management overtime. (Plus, Dee will give them all long holiday weekends.)
Yeah, that's the real irony ain't it? More often than not, the horrible policies that the Republican party enacts to cut taxes, funding, immigration, regulations, etc…. end up costing immensely more money than had they not done anything at all. They immediately jump when the wealthy who own them tell them to do so, yet never bother to take even just a few minutes to consider the logical consequences of those actions.
For example, turning all of our state colleges into essentially conservative, “Christian" indoctrination centers, driving away international students (who also pay the most), and outlawing DEI programs and speech that they dislike will inflict long-term reputational harm on those schools. The best and brightest from around our country and the rest of the world will refuse to come to Florida for education. It will take decades to reverse that reputational harm, but they don't care because they got their immediate short term "win”.
It's truly infuriating watching it all unfold…