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Christine Jordan SextonMay 27, 2015

Days after being advised that it could tentatively expect $1 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding the Gov. Rick Scott administration pushed for more than double that. Deputy Secretary for Medicaid Justin Senior sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Director Victoria Wachino to use $1 billion in local money to match federal funds […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 26, 2015

The Senate on Tuesday announced a series of changes it will make to its plan to expand health care access to upward of 800,000 low-income Floridians who would qualify for Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act. In a prepared statement Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott said that he still opposes Medicaid expansion as set for […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 26, 2015

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The Florida Senate will alter its health care access proposal to allow those who would qualify under an expanded Medicaid program to purchase their health plans from the federal health exchange instead of requiring the newly insured to enroll in a Medicaid HMO. In a news release, Senate Health Policy Committee Chairman Sen. Aaron Bean […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2015

Good morning to the unofficial beginning of summer, which actually began in the Tampa Bay area several weeks ago, if you gauge it by the regularity of temperatures in the 90s. Between now and our next federal holiday weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court is going to come down with several major decisions. None will have […]

Jac VerSteegMay 25, 2015

The Obama administration needs to learn to take advice from Keanu Reeves. In the movie “Speed,” Reeves’s character Jack Travern and Harry Temple, played by Jeff Daniels, are SWAT team members discussing a hypothetical hostage situation. Says Temple: “All right, pop quiz. Airport. Gunman with one hostage. He’s using her for cover. He’s almost to […]

Jac VerSteegMay 25, 2015

The Obama administration needs to learn to take advice from Keanu Reeves. In the movie “Speed,” Reeves’s character Jack Travern and Harry Temple, played by Jeff Daniels, are SWAT team members discussing a hypothetical hostage situation. Says Temple: “All right, pop quiz. Airport. Gunman with one hostage. He’s using her for cover. He’s almost to […]

Daniel TilsonMay 21, 2015

Conservative Florida Republicans of good conscience, unite! Unite in demanding your local state representatives in the Florida House be given the opportunity to publicly vote Aye or Nay on a Senate plan to provide health insurance coverage to more than 800,000 uninsured Floridians stuck in the “Florida Coverage Gap.” Hey, you’ve got nothing to lose […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 21, 2015

The budget impasse paralyzing the state could come to an end soon as the federal government advised Florida today in a letter that it could receive an additional $1 billion this year in supplemental Medicaid funds to help pay hospitals for providing care to the uninsured and poor The state can expect $600 million in supplemental […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 20, 2015

Members of Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon health care commission swam in data Wednesday, but they made clear they want more information and took aim at hospitals for not voluntarily providing all the information requested of them. Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding member Marili Cancio Johnson asked the panel’s staff to list hospitals that didn’t respond […]

Associated PressMay 20, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott‘s new hospital commission consists of Republican donors and business leaders who will likely help him go after some of the state’s hospitals as the standoff over Medicaid expansion intensifies. The panel, which meets for the first time Wednesday, is beginning its work while the governor has become increasingly antagonistic toward hospitals that […]

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Amid budget tug of war Rick Scott pushes new hospital funding proposal with no general revenue

Senate alters health plan but fails to win over critics

Senate health plan now would allow enrollees to go straight to federal health exchanges

Mitch Perry Report for 5.26.15 — That other health care decision affecting Floridians

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: Sometimes in politics, you have to shoot the hostage

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: Sometimes in politics you have to shoot the hostage

Daniel Tilson: Can grassroots Republicans help solve Florida’s healthcare crisis?

Feds advise Florida that LIP could be $1 billion this year, $600 million next year

Rick Scott’s healthcare panel unhappy with hospitals’ responses to data call

Rick Scott’s hospital commission to meet first time