Some GOP-led states plan to resist health care law, as ruling reins in Medicaid expansion

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Fox News:

Leaders of the 26 states that challenged the federal health care law in court have one luxury with the outcome -- they can do nothing.

While the Supreme Court upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, it did rein in the law's expansion of Medicaid by ruling that the federal government could not withhold Medicaid funds to those states that don't comply. The absence of any punitive measures means there is nothing to compel the governors or attorneys general to begin implementation of the law.

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for one, made clear his state will sit tight.

"We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step -- political," Walker said.

His voice was part of a quickly rising chorus of conservatives who took to the Internet and the airwaves raising political donations and rallying support for Mitt Romney's campaign after the ruling, in hopes of electing the candidate who vows to repeal the law. "If the American people don't want ObamaCare, it's a political issue and it's about this fall's presidential race," said GOP Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback.

One health care lobbyist told Fox News that even if states wanted to implement the provision in the Affordable Care Act, they couldn't.

The provisions require staffing levels that do not exist and do not have funding, the lobbyist said, adding it would take years to iron out the specifics needed to put the law into action. "It can't work the way it's on the books right now. Part of that is that there is so much haze within the act," said Robert Slayton of the Illinois Association of Health Care Underwriters.

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Jindal: Obama “Measures Success By How Many People Are On Food Stamp Rolls And Government-Run Health Care”…

Louisiana Gov. Bob Jindal, who has vowed to reject the expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, charged Tuesday that the president “measures success by how many people are on food stamp rolls and government-run health care.”

“The president, his administration, needs to understand what makes this country great in part is that we’re not dependent on government programs,” the Republican governor said on “Fox & Friends.” “It seems to me like the president measures success by how many people are on food stamp rolls and government-run health care. That’s not the American dream.” Read More http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/03/jindal-obama-measures-success-by-how-many-people-are-on-food-stamp-rolls-and-government-run-health-care/