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Associated PressFebruary 12, 2016

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Friday called for U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson to drop out of the race for a Senate seat in Florida. Reid said in a statement that Grayson claims to be progressive but seems to have “no moral compass.” He said Grayson used his office to unethically promote a hedge […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 9, 2016

Bradenton businessman Carlos Beruff looks to be getting in the Florida Senate race, and is going to have many of Rick Scott‘s political team helping him in what will be a five-way scrum for the GOP nomination. The other four campaigns are already responding to Beruff’s entry, the first of them being Ponte Vedra Republican Ron DeSantis. “The last […]

Brendan FarringtonFebruary 8, 2016

A wealthy Manatee County homebuilder is likely to jump into Florida’s U.S. Senate race in a move that would pit key members of Gov. Rick Scott‘s political team against Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera in the Republican primary. Carlos Beruff has gone from considering entering the race to likely to get in, said Joanna Burgos, a […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 26, 2016

Robert and Nancy Watkins may be the two most essential players in Florida’s political universe. Through their South Tampa accounting firm moves tens, if not hundreds, of millions in political contributions and expenditures. Nancy is the treasurer for dozens of candidates and committees, including Conservative Solutions PAC, the most prominent super PAC supporting Marco Rubio’s bid for the White House. Among […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 15, 2015

The “Spotlight Transparency Tour” starts in Tampa on Wednesday with at least two local hospital executives and Marty Makary, medical doctor and author of Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, slated to address Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue ribbon commission on the subject. Makary, associate professor of health policy […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 28, 2015

A blue ribbon panel created to examine taxpayer funded health care costs will hit the road meeting in Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami in the next two months, inviting the lowest and highest performing facilities in the region to address the panel. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding meets in Tallahassee on June 4 but […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 26, 2015

What started out as a review of “taxpayer-funded” healthcare commission has been, so far, limited to Medicaid only. And apparently, hospitals only, even though the executive order creating the blue ribbon panel mentions insurance companies, managed care plans and healthcare providers. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding held its second meeting in Orlando on […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon health care commission swam in data Wednesday, but they made clear they want more information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the panel’s staff to list hospitals that didn’t respond […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

The much-written about Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding holds its inaugural meeting in Tallahassee on Wednesday. Gov. Rick Scott, a former healthcare and hospital executive, has spent much of his time in the three weeks since lawmakers left town focusing on building a continuation base budget and negotiating with and suing the federal government over supplemental Medicaid […]

Tag: Carlos Beruff

Harry Reid calls on Alan Grayson to drop out of Senate race

Ron DeSantis slams “Charlie Crist Republican” Carlos Beruff

Wealthy Bradenton homebuilder Carlos Beruff now likely to enter Florida GOP Senate race

Peter Schorsch: Politicos watch parade — of candidates in 2016 races

Physician-writer to help debut health care panel’s traveling “transparency tour”

Rick Scott healthcare commission launches a “transparency” tour aimed at hospitals that won’t fork over financial data

Rick Scott’s healthcare commission narrows its focus to Medicaid, hospitals only

Rick Scott’s healthcare panel unhappy with hospitals’ responses to data call

5 things to watch at Wednesday’s meeting of Rick Scott’s hospital commission