Idaho tea party candidate criticized for having 10 children on Medicaid

[IDemo]

Greg Collett, a two-time GOP legislative candidate in Canyon County, is defending enrolling his 10 children in taxpayer-funded Medicaid while he declines to buy his own insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Collett got 25 percent of the vote in the 2010 GOP Senate primary against then-Sen. John McGee and 34 percent in 2012 against Rep. Gayle Batt, R-Wilder.

He is featured in an Oct. 4 NBC News story, "Health care holdouts: Uninsured but resisting," telling the network, “I don’t think that the government should be involved in health care or health insurance.”

Collett, 41, told NBC's Maggie Fox he would rather pay the fine for not complying with the insurance mandate in the new law — $95 the first year — than sign up, but may ultimately buy insurance if it "makes financial sense."

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/10/17/2819743/idaho-tea-party-candidate-criticized.html#storylink=cpy

[Kelvin Mace]

1. “I don’t think that the government should be involved in health care or health insurance.”

Then why are your children enrolled in Medicaid?

[IdaBriggs]

2. I admire him for adopting 8 special needs children.

I shake my head at his stupid about everything else.