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Daniel TilsonApril 28, 2015

With state representatives like these, who needs enemies? With nearly four days left in the Florida Legislature’s regular session, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli unexpectedly gathered up all his “Stand Firm” post-it notes, lobbyist business cards and ALEC issues briefings, then suddenly called the session quits and sent everybody home. The political class in Tallahassee likes […]

Daniel TilsonApril 22, 2015

Gov. Scott finally got busy addressing big issues this week. Not serious, mind you, just busy. Lots of finger-pointing, no problem-solving With President Barack Obama visiting South Florida and using the Everglades as backdrop to observe Earth Day, Scott refused the White House’s invitation to participate. Why risk hearing any inflammatory words or phrases. Climate […]

Phil AmmannApril 21, 2015

In order to adjourn on time, all 160 members of the Florida Legislature must have a budget on their desks sometime on April 28. Florida law requires legislators have at least 72 hours to look over the budget before voting on it just before sine die on May 1. The odds of completing a budget […]

Bob SparksApril 21, 2015

In order to adjourn on time, all 160 members of the Florida Legislature must have a budget on their desks sometime on April 28. Florida law requires legislators have at least 72 hours to look over the budget before voting on it just before sine die on May 1. The odds of completing a budget […]

Daniel TilsonApril 19, 2015

Sometimes conspiracy theories aren’t crazy. Sometimes they’re right. Rick Scott, poor boy turned multimillionaire, got rich and famous ruthlessly employing an unprecedentedly remorseless profits-over-people strategy for private healthcare delivery in the United States. The rags-to-riches experience does different things to different people. In Scott’s case, he was left so driven to succeed he ended up […]

Marc YachtApril 8, 2015

Healthcare inequities are costing American lives, increasing disabilities, and bankrupting families forced to choose between healthcare and essentials. Obamacare covers 16 million but an additional 32 million remain unprotected. Although insurer abuses such as cherry picking, pre-existing conditions, denials and rate gouging are being addressed, exorbitant administrative costs and high premiums continue. America’s healthcare problems […]

Guest AuthorApril 7, 2015

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is, in the words of Einstein, the definition of insanity. Unfortunately for Floridians, so too are the calls today to expand our state’s Medicaid system under the Affordable Care Act. After decades of failed reforms, this $450 billion federal healthcare system remains woefully […]

Phil AmmannApril 7, 2015

Florida news flash: Gov. Rick Scott is a double flip-flopper. While that in itself may not be surprising to some, this time it is significant why he reversed course — Medicaid expansion for healthcare to nearly 1 million low-income and uninsured Floridians. Now, like Marie Antoinette, he tells the poor to “eat cake,” in Bill […]

Daniel TilsonMarch 30, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott and Florida House Republicans must love the classic TV series, 24. That’s the one where each episode unfolded as one hour in the same nerve-racking, dangerous day, as the good guys battled against time to thwart terrorist plots. Maybe it’s fondness for suspense that has Scott and GOP House members still stringing […]

Daniel TilsonMarch 23, 2015

We’re more than a quarter of the way through the 60-day 2015 legislative session. And our Florida Legislature remains deeply divided about whether to close the health insurance coverage gap that upwards of a million Floridians have fallen into, through no fault of their own. Almost a quarter of them are unemployed workers actively looking […]

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Daniel Tilson: Florida House Republicans flip us all the bird and fly home

Daniel Tilson: In Rick Scott's Florida, if the flooding doesn't get you, lack of health insurance will

Bob Sparks: So far for this Legislature, the FHIX is not in

Bob Sparks: So far for this Legislature, the FHIX is not in

Daniel Tilson: Rick Scott turns whiff of healthcare conspiracy into full-fledged stench

Marc Yacht: Obamacare helps, but it isn't enough

Chris Hudson: Florida needs better alternative to Medicaid expansion

Bill Day’s latest: Let the poor (and lawmakers) eat Medicaid cake

Daniel Tilson: Is Florida Legislature’s 2015 healthcare reform drama pre-scripted?

Daniel Tilson: Tell House to end hidden healthcare tax, close coverage gap