but look, it s unconstitutional, the supreme court will hold it unconstitutional and they need to accelerate that. let s go to the supreme court, let s don t waste time. because what s happening in our state, we know it s unenforceable for the state, nfib, they re still asking insurance companies to comply with it, so we need to get this confusion taken care of. but they need to change what they re doing, just like welfare reform, give us a block grant, i know what needs to happen in florida, i know what our citizens need. we don t need all these strings attached from washington. bill: otherwise, washington controls your budget and tells us tells you where to spend your money or not to. rick scott, appreciate your time, appreciate your opinion on that. have a great day. bill: we ve gone through this with others and wanted to share with you, 30 percent of your state budget, climbing towards medcade costs today. thank you, and thank you for hanging in with the satellite adjustments w
they own their own policy and reward people for taking care of themselves. that will fix the health care system. not a government take over. each time the government runs health care program, three things happen: they overpromise; they run out of money; they rash on care. this is a disaster that should be replaced. the federal government should do with medicaid, give each state a block grant and let us fix our own medicaid program and come up with each of our own plans. neil: the response to that as i am sure you are aware you have 50 different plans. guest: and that is, each state is supposed to be a laboratory. we will figure out which state does it the best. if they give us a block grant and let us fix medicaid how we want, we can do it the right way and we can afford i. but the health care bill passed will be a disaster around to country and in our state with a lot of medicare recipients, they
but, with this, personal responsibility is very important. in our state, unemployment, the number of people on unemployment is down. people need to look for a job. we need people to look. aren t you in a position where the federal government to set the welfare to work requirements pretty much however you want it done? well, we will look at this, but we will keep the responsibility in our states and i just wish they would do this for everything, for medicaid. medicaid in our state has grown 3 1/2 times our general revenue. give us more flexibility on medicaid, give us a block grant. that is what they ought to do. but with this we believe in personal responsibility and we will continue to have personal responsibility in our state. we want people to look for a job and get back to work.