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Will Weatherford, Florida House Speaker, Calls Medicaid The 'Worst Insurance'
Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) continues to slam Medicaid even though it reportedly paid a "mountain" of his own family's medical bills.
Wednesday, at an event at Suncoast Tiger Bay, a non-partisan political club, Weatherford said "Medicaid has been proven to be one of the worst forms of insurance you can get in America,"according to the Tampa Bay Times. "Nobody in here wants to be on Medicaid."
Yet back in March, Weatherford was forced to admit that it was a Medicaid-backed program he had praised for paying $100,000 of his own family's medical bills when his brother passed away from cancer. His staff originally claimed a hospital charity had helped the Weatherfords with their hospital bills.
"Peter lost his battle with cancer, and my father found himself with a mountain of medical bills that he could never afford to pay," Weatherford said in his opening day speech for the 2013 legislative session, inadvertently praising Medicaid. "It was the safety net that picked my father up. It was the safety net that picked my family up."
More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/will-weatherford-medicaid_n_3906937.html
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