Hello, maroons, the US Supreme Court upheld the Act!
How in the name of God they claim to serve does this make sense!
Ideologue, another word for idiot!
[And at this most desperate moment, there was an opportunity to implement evidence-based, cost-effective programs proven to improve the health and development of at-risk children: the federal government was gifting Florida $31.3 million in total grant funding for 5 years of targeted home visitations, no strings attached and no match required, from its Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Programs.
After a thoughtful, year-long state-wide comprehensive needs assessment, five local Healthy Start organizations were awarded funds in September. The most vulnerable families were registered, professional nurses, social workers, and teachers were hired, and by January 1 the programs were up and running....
And then the conservative Florida legislature rejected the following four years of funding, because the grant was provided under the Affordable Care Act -- also known as Obamacare.
WHAT FLORIDA GAVE UP
“Poverty is the challenge that underlines almost every problem we're dealing with in human services,” Carol Brady, Executive Director of the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, told HuffPost. “To stick a baby in a NICU or get prenatal care, you're just dealing with symptoms. We were talking about doing more than just setting up a clinic -- we were talking about a program where the mother's life looks different, the family's life looks different, and the child's life looks different.”
Brady’s MIECHV–funded nurse-family partnership –- a “nice overlay” to current Healthy Start programs -- sends professionals into the homes of 100 of the most vulnerable first-time mothers in the Jacksonville area, where 32.4 percent of children are helped by food stamps and military families are given priority to participate.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/florida-rejects-home-visitation-grant-miechv-obamacare_n_1838345.html
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