Ryan Ray
Conservative political group Americans for Prosperity-Florida told FloridaPolitics.com Thursday afternoon that it will target legislators supportive of a FHIX-style health care expansion plan with a new mail piece portraying the ongoing Senate-driven negotiations as a “game.”
The mailers feature the number to Senate President Andy Gardiner‘s district office in Orlando and exhorts recipients to “Tell Andy Gardiner we’re done playing the Health Care game.”
“We want real reforms, not more ObamaCare Medicaid expansion,” the piece proclaims.
“While the Senate continues to negotiate with itself as the so-called ‘FHIX’ plan continues to evolve, ordinary Floridians are growing tired of more outdated federal non-answers to Florida’s real health care problems,” AFP-FL communications director Andres Malave said Thursday.
The move comes as the Senate released a new, revised version of its plan to push a privatized version of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature.
“How many versions of the plan — which keep being altered because they’re running into opposition amongst Gardiner’s own chamber — are we going to see before the Senate realizes more Medicaid expansion is not a sound idea?”
“We’re focused on trying to accomplish real reforms instead of warmed-over half measures, and we’re hopeful that President Gardiner will use his experience with Orlando Health and as a good legislator as a guide, and stop trying to force an unpopular plan upon Floridians that simply will not work.”
The group said the mailers will go out “across the state,” particularly to 24 senators who have indicated support for the FHIX plan.
See both sides of the full-length mail piece here.
