How Health Care Blew Up the 2015 Session
Dramatic miscalculations and eagerness for showdown over health care derailed Florida lawmakers' plans in the 2015 legislative session--impulses they must guard against if the special session is to go...
View ArticleGov. Scott Stacks Hospital Panel Without a Single Hospital Expert in Overt Snub
Scott's commission is to make recommendations for a special legislative session on health funding scheduled to begin June 1, but it includes beef, housing, real estate, banking and hospitality experts,...
View ArticleGov. Scott Threatens to Delay Tax Cuts and Education Funding Hike Over Budget...
A roughly $261 per student increase from the current year is at stake, as is a a $690 million tax-cut package, if a health care-fueled budget impasse continues in the Legislature. The post Gov. Scott...
View ArticleSenate Leaders Propose Compromise in Budget Impasse, Gov. Scott and House...
Scott and House Republicans have repeatedly said they have no interest in using Medicaid expansion funds from Obamacare to close a $2.2 billion budget gap and insure more Floridians. The post Senate...
View ArticleAdministrator Patrick Johnson Calls It Quits as Flagler Health Department...
Flagler County Health Department Administrator Patrick Johnson is resigning at the end of the month to take a public health post in North Carolina as county departments in Florida see their roles shift...
View ArticleFederal Government Calls Gov. Scott’s Lawsuit Over Medicaid Expansion “Baseless”
Federal officials fired back in court against Gov. Rick Scott's contention that the Obama administration has unconstitutionally tried to link expanding Medicaid with the continuation of a key...
View ArticleOpposing “Medicaid in Disguise,” Florida House Set to Kill Senate Health Plan...
For all of its new provisions, House Republicans said, the so-called Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange, or FHIX, remains Medicaid expansion in disguise. The post Opposing “Medicaid in...
View ArticleIn Breakthrough, Lawmakers Agree on Health Budget and “Significant” Increase...
Florida House and the Senate reached tentative agreements Saturday on money to hospitals and providers for the poor, and a $207-per-pupil increase in education funding. The post In Breakthrough,...
View ArticleSenator Blasts “Hypocritical” House Over Rejecting Medicaid Money While...
Disagreements led Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee, R-Brandon, to label the House as "hypocritical" for rejecting federal Medicaid expansion funding while being willing to issue bonds to pay for...
View Article2.8 Million Floridians Still Uninsured Even as Just 20% Fall in Medicaid Gap
It's 1.1 million fewer than in 2013, but almost a third of the uninsured are eligible for Obamacare but haven't enrolled, 15% have chosen not to enroll in employee-provided health care, and the rest...
View ArticleHow Health Care Blew Up the 2015 Session
Dramatic miscalculations and eagerness for showdown over health care derailed Florida lawmakers' plans in the 2015 legislative session--impulses they must guard against if the special session is to go...
View ArticleGov. Scott Stacks Hospital Panel Without a Single Hospital Expert in Overt Snub
Scott's commission is to make recommendations for a special legislative session on health funding scheduled to begin June 1, but it includes beef, housing, real estate, banking and hospitality experts,...
View ArticleGov. Scott Threatens to Delay Tax Cuts and Education Funding Hike Over Budget...
A roughly $261 per student increase from the current year is at stake, as is a a $690 million tax-cut package, if a health care-fueled budget impasse continues in the Legislature. The post Gov. Scott...
View ArticleSenate Leaders Propose Compromise in Budget Impasse, Gov. Scott and House...
Scott and House Republicans have repeatedly said they have no interest in using Medicaid expansion funds from Obamacare to close a $2.2 billion budget gap and insure more Floridians. The post Senate...
View ArticleAdministrator Patrick Johnson Calls It Quits as Flagler Health Department...
Flagler County Health Department Administrator Patrick Johnson is resigning at the end of the month to take a public health post in North Carolina as county departments in Florida see their roles shift...
View ArticleFederal Government Calls Gov. Scott’s Lawsuit Over Medicaid Expansion “Baseless”
Federal officials fired back in court against Gov. Rick Scott's contention that the Obama administration has unconstitutionally tried to link expanding Medicaid with the continuation of a key...
View ArticleOpposing “Medicaid in Disguise,” Florida House Set to Kill Senate Health Plan...
For all of its new provisions, House Republicans said, the so-called Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange, or FHIX, remains Medicaid expansion in disguise. The post Opposing “Medicaid in...
View ArticleIn Breakthrough, Lawmakers Agree on Health Budget and “Significant” Increase...
Florida House and the Senate reached tentative agreements Saturday on money to hospitals and providers for the poor, and a $207-per-pupil increase in education funding. The post In Breakthrough,...
View ArticleSenator Blasts “Hypocritical” House Over Rejecting Medicaid Money While...
Disagreements led Senate Appropriations Chairman Tom Lee, R-Brandon, to label the House as "hypocritical" for rejecting federal Medicaid expansion funding while being willing to issue bonds to pay for...
View Article2.8 Million Floridians Still Uninsured Even as Just 20% Fall in Medicaid Gap
It's 1.1 million fewer than in 2013, but almost a third of the uninsured are eligible for Obamacare but haven't enrolled, 15% have chosen not to enroll in employee-provided health care, and the rest...
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