Around 50 members of Organizing for Action (OFA) marched half a mile down SR54 Saturday afternoon to House Speaker Will Weatherford’s office in Wesley Chapel with signs reading “Where’s there’s a Will, there’s no Way,” and “Patients over Politics.”
They were there to protest Weatherford’s outspoken advocacy against accepting the Medicaid expansion plan offered by the federal government — a key part of the Affordable Care Act — that would pay all costs for Florida to expand their Medicaid rolls by up to a million people for three years, and then a 90-10 federal/state match after that.
Weatherford has said that he is opposed to Medicaid expansion because he believes "it crosses the line of the proper role of government."
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2013.