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Perry joins other GOP governors — including Florida’s Rick Scott, South Carolina’s Nikki Haley and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker — in refusing to implement the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court upheld the law but said the federal government may not cut off a state’s Medicaid funds if they turn down the expansion. If a state refuses to set up the insurance market exchanges, the federal government does it for them.In Loss For Texans, Gov. Rick Perry Refuses To Implement ‘Obamacare’ | TPMDC (via Kieran Healy; well done Texas for getting the double benefit of having the federal government do all the work for you on exchange markets, while reaping the political seeds of the not-in-our-name operation)
