Looking for complaints, Rick Scott instead finds praise for Obamacare

[ProSense]

Looking for complaints, Rick Scott instead finds praise for Obamacare

By Anthony Man

BOCA RATON—

– Gov. Rick Scott visited a senior center Tuesday to warn about cuts he said Obamacare is forcing in a popular version of the Medicare health program and to collect their horror stories.

What he found was a satisfied group with few complaints...seniors assembled for a roundtable with Scott at the Volen Center were largely content with their Medicare coverage...And some praised Obamacare – a program that Scott frequently criticizes...Harvey Eisen, 92, a West Boca resident...told the governor he wasn’t sure “if, as you say,” there are Obamacare-inspired cuts to Medicare. But even if there are, that would be OK. “I can’t expect that me as a senior citizen are going to get preferential treatment when other programs are also being cut.”

Ruthlyn Rubin, 66, of Boca Raton, told the governor that people who are too young for Medicare need the health coverage they get from Obamacare. If young people don’t have insurance, she said, everyone else ends up paying for their care when they get sick or injured and end up in the hospital....Rubin said, Obamacare will become more popular. “People were appalled at Social Security. They were appalled at Medicare when it came out. I think these major changes take some people aback. But I think we have to be careful not to just rely on the fact that we’re seniors and have an entitlement to certain things,” she said.

“We’re all just sitting here taking it for granted that because we have Medicare we don’t want to lose one part of it. That’s wrong to me. I think we have to spread it around. This is the United States of America. It’s not the United States of senior citizens,” Rubin said from her spot two seats away from the governor.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/broward-politics-blog/sfl-rick-scott-obamacare-20140429,0,5601325.story

Tampa Bay Times: Scott worst Florida governor in modern times
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024797667

[randys1]

1. Good for them, Rick Scott is a murderer so why isnt he in jail yet?

He murdered that woman with cancer who had FL taken medicaid expansion she would be alive, so I not only dont want to hear what this guy says i want him arrested

TODAY

[Thinkingabout]

2. K & R

He must have thought he had a captive audience only to find they was much smarter than his RW audiences. Good for them, I share their thoughts.

[HooptieWagon]

3. I don't know why Scott hates Medicare....

he fraudulently collected 100s of millions from Medicare. The SOB should be in jail, not the Governor's Mansion.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. I occasionally get optimistic. It makes me uneasy.

The optimistic part of me thinks that someday Republicans will overplay their cynical appeals to fear and self interest.

[Hoyt]

5. Mr. Eisen's got it. Better than some here too.

“I can’t expect that me as a senior citizen are going to get preferential treatment when other programs are also being cut."

[mcar]

6. I love this!

Thanks ProSense. Gives me hope.

[ProSense]

10. You're welcome.

I feel the same way.

[babylonsister]

7. Rec'd! Love those who are speaking up! nt

[sheshe2]

8. People like Rick Scott,

are going to find themselves on the wrong side of history, on Obamacare and so much more.

[Beartracks]

9. He probably thinks the senior center got DU'd...

...rather than realizing that these are real people.

The truth really does have a liberal bias.

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[Historic NY]

11. People are getting it...especially the old sage ones.

okay lets wheel them to the voting booths.

[Cha]

12. K

[spanone]

13. k&r...

[freshwest]

14. Kudos to Ruthlyn Rubin! Most people her age agree with that. It's about of us! n/t