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Scott PowersApril 26, 2016

At an industry-sponsored summit in Orlando Tuesday, outgoing Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner and the leader of one of Florida’s biggest hospital system both called for urgent help in providing more access to health care. But not through Medicaid. Gardiner, an Orlando Republican, and Lars Houmann, president of the Florida Division of Adventist Health System, […]

Martin DyckmanApril 12, 2016

There was once a senator from Virginia who was dismayed to find his picture on the cover of New Times magazine under the headline “the dumbest Congressman of them all.” He called a news conference to deny it, thereby proving it to be true. His name was Scott. William Scott. You can probably guess where […]

Martin DyckmanApril 11, 2016

There was once a senator from Virginia who was dismayed to find his picture on the cover of New Times magazine under the headline “the dumbest Congressman of them all.” He called a news conference to deny it, thereby proving it to be true. His name was Scott. William Scott. You can probably guess where […]

Jim RosicaApril 8, 2016

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Let’s Get to Work, the political fundraising committee affiliated with Gov. Rick Scott, is striking back against the Starbucks patron who called him an “a**hole” this week, labeling her a “latte liberal” in a new video. The 1-minute clip surfaced Friday on the group’s website and YouTube. The governor had stopped into a Gainesville Starbucks […]

Phil AmmannApril 5, 2016

During a visit to a Starbucks in downtown Gainesville, Gov. Rick Scott got an earful from an angry woman over his refusal to expand Medicaid to low-income Floridians. “You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” the woman, identified as former Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, yells at Scott. “You’re an asshole. You don’t care about […]

Melissa RossMarch 28, 2016

Expanding Medicaid would greatly help the nearly 1 million uninsured Floridians who have a substance abuse or mental health issue. That according to a policy brief released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The report examines how Medicaid expansion would affect people with a substance-use disorder or mental illness. In particular, […]

Martin DyckmanMarch 27, 2016

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith memorably said that politics “consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” But what if the only choice is between the disastrous and the disastrous? That’s the predicament of establishment Republican politicians who think John Kasich, the only decent human being who remains in their presidential primaries, is either […]

Diane RobertsMarch 22, 2016

So the other jackboot has dropped: Rick Scott endorsed his Soul Brother but only after that big Florida Primary win. Scott signaled his man-crush back in January, writing breathlessly for USA TODAY that Herr Drumpf reminds him of, well, him: rich, an “outsider,” a business hombre incensed over “endless and tedious regulation and taxation.” You know, […]

Diane RobertsMarch 21, 2016

So the other jackboot has dropped: Rick Scott endorsed his Soul Brother but only after that big Florida Primary win. Scott signaled his man-crush back in January, writing breathlessly for USA Today that Herr Drumpf reminds him of, well, him: rich, an “outsider,” a business hombre incensed over “endless and tedious regulation and taxation.” You […]

Ryan RayMarch 11, 2016

Aiming to protect children’s dental insurance under Medicaid, GOP lawmakers held a news conference on Day 60 of the 2016 Legislative Session. They sought support for the bill, which separates kids’ Medicaid dental insurance from other medical coverage, and to avert a possible veto from Gov. Rick Scott. Senate President-designate Joe Negron and Rep. Jose Felix Diaz spoke to […]

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Andy Gardiner, Lars Houmann, call for more health care access, but not Medicaid

Martin Dyckman: Rick Scott doesn’t know when to shut up

Martin Dyckman: Rick Scott doesn't know when to shut up

New video: Let’s Get to Work calls Rick Scott heckler a “latte liberal”

Rick Scott gets earful from angry Florida woman at Gainesville Starbucks

Report says Medicaid expansion would help Florida patients with mental problems, substance abuse disorders

Martin Dyckman: Cruzing to a police state?

Diane Roberts: Florida GOP voters don’t want to think, they just want to believe

Diane Roberts: Florida GOP voters don’t want to think, they just want to believe

Lawmakers make case for dental carve-out bill at Session’s end