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Peter SchorschOctober 3, 2017

State health agencies are relaxing premium deadlines this month for the state’s KidCare programs, giving the many low-income families in the system a little room to breathe post-Irma. The Agency for Health Care Administration announced the extension along with the Florida Department of Health Children’s Medical Services (CMS) and Florida Healthy Kids Corporation in a […]

Guest AuthorMay 17, 2017

One of my all-time heroes is Winston Churchill. He’s widely credited with having said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” In the digital age, this phenomenon, which once took days or weeks, now takes mere hours or minutes. To know this is true […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 17, 2015

The Senate Health Policy Committee plowed through a number of bills Tuesday, including a measure that continues regulation of pain management clinics as well as a bills relating to the Children’s Health Insurance Program and diabetes. Perhaps the most controversial bill the committee passed was one that it had to defer action on when it […]

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