A.G. Gancarski
Reproductive rights continue to be a potent part of the Rick Scott re-election campaign, as a new bill and a sharp rejoinder from his likely General Election opponent show.
The Naples Republican and U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack rolled out the Increasing Value for Families (IVF) with HSAs Act.
Scott’s Office says the plan is designed to “help individuals and families better plan and pay for medical expenses, like in vitro fertilization (IVF), by decoupling Health Savings Accounts (HSA) from high-deductible health plans, and doubling the current contribution limits on HSAs from $4,300 to $8,600 for individuals and $8,550 to $17,100 for families.”
“IVF is a wonderful thing that enables so many Americans to start and grow their families,” Scott said. “For me and my family, the blessing of IVF is personal, as my youngest daughter is currently undergoing IVF treatments to grow her family. While IVF is a blessing that is widely available and overwhelmingly supported, its high cost remains a barrier for many families and that’s something that ought to change.”
He described his plan as benefiting “current and aspiring parents looking at IVF as a way to grow their family.”
“This bill is commonsense and what American families expect out of Washington — solutions that make their lives easier and dreams possible. I urge all of our colleagues to join us in fighting to quickly pass this bill, help families plan for medical expenses, and hopefully expand their families and bring more beautiful children into the world.”
Meanwhile, the campaign of Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell pans Scott’s bill as a distraction from his real record, which includes spending “millions of dollars to lie to Florida voters about his anti-IVF record and cover up his recent vote against bipartisan legislation to protect access to IVF treatment.”
“How very fitting that the thief who defrauded Medicare by $1.7 billion, refused to expand Medicaid, and has repeatedly called to eliminate the Affordable Care Act is suddenly pretending to care about Floridians’ access to IVF and affordable health care,” Mucarsel-Powell said.
“If Rick Scott truly wanted to protect access to IVF, he would have backed the Right to IVF bill last month when he had the chance. But Floridians won’t forget that Rick Scott has always stood with extremists who want to ban IVF, and he has repeatedly embraced Florida’s extreme abortion ban.”
Scott and other Senate Republicans have said such messaging is part of “a Summer of Scare Tactics — a partisan campaign of false fearmongering intended to mislead and confuse the American people.”
“In vitro fertilization is legal and available in every state across our nation. We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families,” they claimed in a statement earlier this year.
10 comments
PeterH
July 25, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Make no mistake, Rick Scott is the GQP’s top proponent of a nationwide ban on a woman’s decision to control their own body.
Additionally, Republicans like Rick Scott whine about border control measures THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE RESPONSIBLE. Only CONGRESS has the authority to change, modify or eliminate immigration policies. UNLESS THERE IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIKE A COVID NATIONAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, neither the president nor the vice president are authorized under the Constitution to write or impose laws THAT ARE NOT ON THE BOOKS.
Since 2017, Republicans have twice written legislation to address the southern border influx of asylum seekers……REPUBLICANS DEFEATED COMMON SENSE BORDER LEGISLATION BOTH TIMES.
Republicans are America’s worst enemy.
Vote all Republicans out of office.
Ninety Three
July 25, 2024 at 2:40 pm
Demos can only campaign on abortion. The honeymoon is already coming to an end for Ka Mana. She will have to defend the poor economy, record high inflation and fuel prices, of course her complete blow off of the southern border, foreign policy etc. Ka Mana also has to defend some of her positions as a US Senator and what she campaigned on when she got absolutely crushed running for President back in 2019. Then there is the Joe Biden coverup she will have to answer to. Of course the phony media will toss her soft balls to protect her. Michael-Powell will get crushed in November. Memories of the fantasy that Demings was going to beat Rubio.
PeterH
July 25, 2024 at 4:18 pm
Thank you IMPEACHBIDEN for proving to us that your message of lies hasn’t changed ….. only your screen name. LOL
COD
July 25, 2024 at 5:39 pm
If the Republican candidate were any other, moderately disciplined and cogent and able to put that message forward to the mainstream, at any other time, they would beat Harris easily. But this time I’m going to say it doesn’t matter. Vance was a strategic mistake and Trump is too undisciplined to stay on message. Logic no longer applies. It’s over. They blew it. The GOP will be facing down Dobbs debacle for a generation and will continue to lose. They did it to themselves.
MH/Duuuval
July 25, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Looks like the message from Speaker Johnson was received at FP: Tone down the misogyny and white racism.
Otherwise, still the same old MAGA lies spun out of whole cloth. These lies, when repeated enough, act as a lullaby to low-information voters.
Maybe
July 25, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Listen, if they decouple the HSA from high deductible health plans and increase the cap, I would be thrilled. The portable HSA concept might have been the best thing to come from the W administration but it was terminated with the ACA, so you can only have one now if you have an employer provided high deductible health care plan or the highest deductible plan on the ACA and it’s no longer portable. If they changed that, finally, that would help so many people. I would just hope it would not be limited to IVF but for general use. I expect this bill will be blocked since terminating portable HSA’s was one of the major compromises of the ACA and would face fierce resistance. But this is actually a good idea. I just don’t want to have to pay for other people’s family decisions. If you want to have kids, great, but my tax dollars already subsidize the schools and child tax credits and everything else. I don’t need to be paying rich people to impregnate themselves. TRY ADOPTING since that’s one of conservative big talking points. If I’m gonna be taxed on it, I’d much rather see those dollars help little ones who are already here. But yeah, give us back our HSA!!!
COD
July 25, 2024 at 5:29 pm
MH are you accusing Florida politics of answering to Mike Johnson?? ROFL. Or are you accusing the paper of misogyny and white racism based on reporting what politicians do and say? Or would you rather have the site make things up to be more offensive and put them in politicians’ mouths? 1984 is calling. You’re losing it.
MH/Duuuval
July 25, 2024 at 10:39 pm
You were worried about what Val Demings was up to — read the top of Gancarski where he tells readers that Val now is a USPS governor.
(Val is the Black woman cop and legislator that you love to hate on. But now you can’t because Mike told you to behave yourself until the election. Unfortunately no one can tell DJT anything and he’s already jabbering about Karmala.)
MH/Duuuval
July 26, 2024 at 9:51 am
Here you go, codpiece:
Joe Biden picks Val Demings for Postal Service position
COD
July 27, 2024 at 8:11 pm
Wow you seem unhinged. Are you ok, MH? You think you’ve got everyone’s number and all you can do is mud sling. Forget allowing people to have different opinions. You don’t believe in that and you’re the most intolerant person on her commenting besides Rick. I don’t answer to anyone and neither apparently does Gancarski. Why do you continue to read this rag when clearly you think FP is stumping for Goebbels? It shows your inability to think clearly or fairly. Hence you are losing it. You used to be more reasonable. Here’s something that will make your head explode: Gancarski was the first and most consistent to give Demmings earned media and coverage as he does consistently with challenger candidates which I for one appreciate. Here’s something else for your tiny mind: I voted for her. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. And grow up.
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