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Drew WilsonMarch 21, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday signed a bill that would put to rest years of legal and regulatory fights over the state’s trauma center system. HB 1165, sponsored by Panama City Republican Rep. Jay Trumbull, in part aims to stem the flow of litigation against the state’s Department of Health, charged with reviewing the need […]

Peter SchorschJuly 18, 2016

Last week, the Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas reported Florida’s sugar industry has spent a “whopping” $57.8 million over the last 22 years on political campaign contributions. This number sounds huge. But to those actively involved in Florida’s political process, the number is not so whopping when you’re plying your trade as a health care, theme park/entertainment, […]

Jim RosicaFebruary 15, 2016

Companies seeking to influence the Florida Legislature paid a median of $31,213,000 for the last quarter of 2015, according to data released Monday by the state. That’s a $531,000 increase over the preceding quarter, but still less than the $34,890,000 paid in the first quarter and $35,696,000 during the second. The 2015 Legislative Session overlapped those two quarters, and […]

Jim RosicaNovember 19, 2015

A bill that would end state oversight of hospital construction and expansion cleared its first House review panel on Thursday. The Select Committee on Affordable Healthcare Access OK’d the legislation (HB 437) 10-4 along party lines. The measure would repeal the “certificate of need” process that requires hospitals to show state regulators there’s a need in the community […]

Julie DelegalMay 31, 2015

The Florida Legislature reconvenes Monday in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The impasse, between Republicans in the House and Republicans in the Senate over expanding healthcare for uninsured Floridians, prompted House members to pick up their ball and leave the playground three days before the regular session’s […]

Julie DelegalMay 31, 2015

The Florida Legislature reconvenes Monday in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The impasse, between Republicans in the House and Republicans in the Senate over expanding healthcare for uninsured Floridians, prompted House members to pick up their ball and leave the playground three days before the regular session’s […]

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 […]

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Debate party at Sports Grill Kendall. Image via AP.

Rick Scott signs trauma center bill

Putting the sugar industry’s history of political contributions into some much-needed context

AT&T, HCA, U.S. Sugar in top three for lobbying expenses

House panel OKs repeal of hospital regulation

Julie Delegal: Are poor less worthy of American Dream that includes healthcare?

Julie Delegal: Are poor less worthy of American Dream that includes healthcare?

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