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Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott has been a leading opponent of ObamaCare, yet this week he came out in favor of expanding Medicaid in his state through the Affordable Care Act. The reasoning is it is "free money" or "money left on the table if we don't expand" or a "job creator" or expansion will "hold down health care costs." These are all faulty reasons at their worst.

The bottom line is Medicaid expansion is a bribe from the federal government.

The state health insurance exchanges are a big part of the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare. These exchanges will function as insurance brokerages to help customers purchase health insurance that will be subsidized by federal taxpayers. As of this writing, only 18 states, including the District of Columbia, have set up exchanges. The federal government is suppose to establish an exchange for any state unwilling or unable to set up its own.

The deadline for approval of a state exchange by the federal government was January 1, 2013.

This week, the ostensibly nonpartisan researchers at the Institute of Medicine released their latest paper on life expectancy in the United States. They found that the U.S. ranked seventeenth in the world as far as life expectancy was concerned.

As reported by the Galen Institute, the AM&A, Resurgent Republic 1st Anniversary Survey of Likely Voters revealed the American public had considerable pessimism about the impact of ObamaCare. The country now has two years of experience with the law. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has increased the estimated cost of the legislation from the original $940 billion to a new ten year cost of $1.76 trillion. Unless taxes are raised to unacceptable levels, ObamaCare will definitely add to the federal deficit and national debt.

The new federal health care legislation, ObamaCare, was signed into law in 2010. American opinion polls have consistently shown that voters do not like the law. Rasmussen polls, done on a regular schedule since the debate on ObamaCare began, have never dropped below a 49 percent disapproval rating and usually show that 52 to 60 percent of those polled favor repeal of the law. Even the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation poll now reveals a virtual split between opponents and proponent of ObamaCare.

We now have 2 ½ years experience with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or as the President wants to call it, ObamaCare. Proponents told the American public to expect many benefits from the law during the debate in 2009.