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Daniel TilsonJune 5, 2015

Dear Republican State Representatives in the Florida House: Word is, most of you are about to vote “Nay” and kill the Florida Senate’s healthcare bill that would insure hundreds of thousands of uninsured men and women stuck in the “Florida Coverage Gap.” Those are your fellow conservative Republican legislators who worked their butts off to […]

Daniel TilsonJune 2, 2015

OK, you got me. That’s a made-up name in the headline. But this week’s “Economic Growth Summit” hosted by Florida Gov. Rick Scott is all about the politics of make-believe, so anything goes. If life was fair, Scott’s summit would feature explanations and apologies to middle-class Floridians who’ve remained loyal to his hardcore conservative economic […]

Daniel TilsonMay 28, 2015

Are you stuck in a “cycle of dependency”? Um, not on alcohol or drugs or anything like that, but on the government? For instance, do you count on your Social Security payment arriving in full and on time every month? What about Medicare? Do you depend on your Medicare benefits to keep you alive and […]

Daniel TilsonMay 26, 2015

Time to praise the opposition, and challenge ourselves. In preparation for 2016, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) did itself proud with recent communications upgrades. Now let’s see if the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) can rise to the occasion with a new fix-it plan scheduled for public release next month. OK, I can hear the […]

Daniel TilsonMay 21, 2015

Conservative Florida Republicans of good conscience, unite! Unite in demanding your local state representatives in the Florida House be given the opportunity to publicly vote Aye or Nay on a Senate plan to provide health insurance coverage to more than 800,000 uninsured Floridians stuck in the “Florida Coverage Gap.” Hey, you’ve got nothing to lose […]

Daniel TilsonMay 19, 2015

Simplicity is always in season for some politicians. Cherry-picking what information to share with the public is part and parcel of how some of our most powerful elected officials – Gov. Rick Scott, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and House Budget Chair Richard Corcoran, to name a few – do government business. You may think the […]

Daniel TilsonMay 13, 2015

President Lyndon Johnson publicly declared “War On Poverty” in 1964. In 2011, Rick Scott took office as Florida governor and began waging secretive, undeclared war on Florida’s poor. Haunted by his own underprivileged upbringing and defined by the drive to overcome it and get rich at any cost, Scott swooped into office in January 2011 […]

Daniel TilsonMay 10, 2015

I want to serve on Gov. Rick Scott’s Commission on Hospital and Healthcare Funding. I mean, poetic justice aside, I’m uniquely qualified to help the cause. Not the governor’s cause, not the crusade to turn Florida’s healthcare system into a hardcore conservative model for what could replace the Affordable Care Act after he’s helped elect […]

Daniel TilsonMay 7, 2015

Think of state government as Florida’s medicine cabinet. Inside should be whatever basics we need to keep chugging away day to day, along with assorted treatments and remedies to address more difficult or chronic conditions. Then there’s that mirror on the front. While plenty falls outside its field of view, whatever it does capture and […]

Daniel TilsonMay 3, 2015

Floridians deserve clarity on healthcare reform. After years of confusion and consternation caused by opponents of the Affordable Care Act, it’s no wonder much of Main Street Florida is unfazed by or unaware of details of last week’s melodramatic work stoppage in the Florida Legislature. Sure, some people are disgusted and fed up, while others […]

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Daniel Tilson: Florida GOP showing Florida Democratic Party a thing or two

Daniel Tilson: Can grassroots Republicans help solve Florida’s healthcare crisis?

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Rick Scott puts KISS principle to work in healthcare debate

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Republicans are winning 'War On The Poor'

Daniel Tilson: I want to be on Rick Scott's new healthcare commission

Daniel Tilson: Florida government reflects ongoing struggle with racism

Daniel Tilson: Truth can free Florida from ‘healthcare house of mirrors’