Rick Scott Claim On Obama Health Care Law Ruled 'False'

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's (R) claim that the Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land" was ruled "false" Thursday by PolitiFact, the fact-checking project run by the St. Petersburg Times.

In an editorial board interview with the Palm Beach Post, Scott was pressed as to why the state of Florida was not taking federal money to implement the health care law signed by President Barack Obama. "Because it's not the law of the law," Scott said. "I don't believe it'll ever become the law of the land."

While some courts have declared the law unconstitutional, no court has ordered states to stop implementing it. Moreover, legal experts told PolitiFact that statutes are the "law of the land" unless Congress or the Supreme Court decides otherwise.

The Huffington Post's Mike Sacks reported that the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in March. A decision will come down at the end of June, potentially throwing the presidential election into chaos.

Before being elected governor of Florida in 2010, Scott founded a group in 2009 called Conservatives for Patients' Rights, which ran ads against health care reform.

Under Scott, Florida has turned away millions of dollars in grants from the federal government available under the new law, despite having among the highest rates of uninsured and unemployed in the nation.