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Guest AuthorApril 27, 2015

While the struggle to close the healthcare coverage gap in Florida is getting plenty of attention right now, there’s an important Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) Special Enrollment Period (SEP) deadline coming up this week that deserves its share of attention too. Many still-uninsured Floridians don’t know that although the ACA Open Enrollment Period […]

Peter SchorschApril 27, 2015

During a story arc of the third season of 30 Rock, Jon Hamm plays Drew, the boyfriend of Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon. In the episode “The Bubble,” Fey begins to notice that people treat Hamm differently because of his good looks. After watching a traffic cop rip up a ticket for Drew, and fashion […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 27, 2015

Rep. Richard Corcoran, the House budget chief who has urged House members to go to “war” over health care, made it clear Monday: No means no when it comes to Medicaid expansion. Corcoran, who took to Twitter this past weekend to vent his frustration over the current health care impasse that has bogged down this […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 27, 2015

Senate President Andy Gardiner on Monday sent letters to federal and state officials regarding Florida’s effort to win approval of a revamped hospital funding formula. The uncertainty over the loss of more than $1 billion in federal aid has resulted in a budget standoff between the House and Senate. The Agency for Health Care Administration […]

Mitch PerryApril 27, 2015

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Florida Houses Budget Chairman Richard Corcoran reinforced fact that he and his GOP House colleagues are not going accept the Senate’s plan to propose a version of Medicaid expansion. Such a plan could allow up to 800,000 Floridians with an income of up to 138 percent of the federal […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 26, 2015

Health care financing isn’t the only unresolved issue heading into the final week of the 2015 Legislative Session. A significant amount of health care policy — from deciding the role advanced registered nurse practitioners should have in an ever-evolving delivery system to whether doctors should be allowed to override insurance companies and HMOs as they […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 25, 2015

The House and Senate exchanged and rejected budget offers on Friday and with one week left in the Session the two chambers continue to disagree over how to finance health care and whether 800,000 working Floridians should receive health care access. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said if the chambers cannot find a “reasonable approach to […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 24, 2015

The House has rejected the Senate’s proposal to extend the session until June 30. Instead, on Friday it increased its offer to $600 million in contingency funding to pad the loss of supplemental Medicaid funding if the Senate would back away from its push to expand Medicaid to low-income working Floridians. The money would draw […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 23, 2015

With just one week left in the regular legislative session the House on Thursday offered to spend $200 million in general revenue to help fund hospitals in the absence of the federal Low Income Pool. “It is a proposal that is on their desk right now,” House Speaker Steve Crisafulli told reporters as he announced […]

Peter SchorschApril 23, 2015

As the 2015 legislative session winds down – and the state’s budget standoff heats up – money is on everyone’s mind. With that, the darkening prospects of the House and Senate settling differences over Medicaid expansion lead a casual (and maybe not so casual) observer to ask the obvious question. Why? Why is the Senate […]

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Leah Barber-Heinz: Affordable Care Act Special Enrollment builds on success – but ends April 30

Peter Schorsch: When will Speaker Steve Crisafulli's bubble burst?

Richard Corcoran: No means no on Medicaid expansion

Andy Gardiner sends letters to feds, state on Medicaid expansion

Health care expert says Richard Corcoran wrong on Medicaid facts

Can health care issues pass though Medicaid bogs down Session?

Offers fly but still no budget agreement

House offers Senate $600 million to walk away from Medicaid expansion

House offers $200 million to Senate to revive budget talks

Peter Schorsch: In the deadlock over the state budget, follow the money