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Christine Jordan SextonMay 4, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court has never had such a central role in health care system as it has recently. In 2012 it was asked to decide whether the federal health care law is constitutional, and now the court is preparing to issue a ruling in the second challenge to the law, King v. Burwell. Paul […]

Guest AuthorMarch 16, 2015

The Supreme Court recently heard an oral argument in a landmark case whose outcome threatens to take away the health coverage of millions of Americans, myself included. The case of King v. Burwell challenges specific wording in the health care law that states that subsidies to cover healthcare costs can only be given in states […]

Daniel TilsonMarch 5, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter to President Obama this week. Isn’t that special? Well, yes and no. Yes, because it’s something that doesn’t happen every day. In a different world it might actually hold some promise of a constructive new dialogue beginning between presumably the most powerful man in Florida, and the most powerful […]

Associated PressMarch 5, 2015

The arguments offered in the U.S. Supreme Court over subsidies that help millions of people afford their health insurance suggest that the Obama administration has two chances to attract one critical vote. The justices will gather in private Friday to cast their votes in the case. The outcome after Wednesday’s argument appears to be in […]

Mitch PerryMarch 4, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday that if the state and the federal government can’t come to an agreement on Florida’s Low Income Pool (LIP) program, he won’t supplement the program with state funds. “Florida taxpayers fund our federal government and deserve to get a return on their investment,” Scott wrote in a letter to President Barack […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 4, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for POLITICO advising President Obama that he should remodel the health exchange and allow low income people to establish individual savings accounts if the Supreme Court of the United States rules in King v. Burwell that tax subsidies on the federal exchange are illegal. Florida did not establish its […]

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