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Guest AuthorMarch 9, 2015

Last week, the Florida Senate and Senate President Andy Gardiner took a significant step on an issue with profound impacts on Florida taxpayers, businesses and, ultimately, our economy. The Senate filed SPB 7044, the “Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange” (FHIX), based upon A Healthy Florida Works Plan. This plan was thoughtfully proposed by a bipartisan coalition of business owners, hospitals, community leaders and individuals who […]

Phil AmmannJanuary 23, 2015

Three Tampa Bay municipal leaders will join a coalition of businesses next week to discuss strategies for extending health-care coverage for uninsured Floridians. “Cover the Bay” 2015 Bay Area Mayors Conference is January 28 and features A Healthy Florida Works along with Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, and Clearwater Mayor George […]

Mitch PerryDecember 11, 2014

Today’s St. Petersburg City Council meeting will be like every other meeting on the second Thursday of the month after all. There will be some public commendations offered, and the public won’t be permitted to give comments. That’s because Mayor Rick Kriseman smartly opted yesterday afternoon to delay the vote on the deal to allow […]

Mitch PerryDecember 10, 2014

Last week a coalition including business groups released a proposal that would extend private health insurance to hundreds of thousands of low-income Floridians. Called “A Healthy Florida Works, it borrowed some elements from the Joe Negron sponsored bill in the Florida Senate in 2013 that would be funded though the billions of federal dollars available under […]

Guest AuthorOctober 15, 2014

For too long, politics have guided our state’s direction on the expansion of health care coverage. The economic benefits of using federal funds to cover approximately 1 million more Floridians have largely been brushed aside. It’s time we start looking at what the expansion of health care coverage means for the people of Florida, the […]

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