Wire ServicesMarch 26, 2021
8min1471
The cuts could help fund a leadership priority to extend Medicaid for new mothers.
Tag: health care fundingLiam Coen is interviewed at the NFL annual football meetings in Palm Beach. Image via AP.
Wire ServicesMarch 26, 2021
Peter SchorschFebruary 28, 2018
4min390
Senate Appropriations Chair Rob Bradley is undertaking something seen too rarely in the Legislative process: He is actually trying to clean up and improve Florida’s health care financing policy. Bradley, an Orange Park Republican, intends to do this by finally eliminating “auto-payments,” a payment scheme that Gov. Rick Scott described in 2015 as arbitrary, inconsistent and bearing no relationship […]
Jim RosicaOctober 14, 2015
3min268
Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner, whose son has Down syndrome, focused on the needs of Floridians with “unique abilities” in his remarks at Wednesday’s Associated Press legislative planning session. When later asked about what was arguably the most pressing issue of last session, paying for hospitals’ charity care, Gardiner – a hospital executive – largely took a pass. […]