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Christine Jordan SextonJune 10, 2015

A House health care panel on Wednesday took up and passed six bills that, combined, leaders say will reduce the cost of health care and, in turn, increase access to doctors and services. The Health and Human Services Committee spent two hours hearing the bills, which range from establishing a new health care provider called […]

Associated PressJune 5, 2015

House Republicans appeared ready to reject the Senate’s plan on Medicaid, arguing Thursday that it is essentially an expansion that relies on money from the president’s health care overhaul. During a tense 2 1/2 hours of questions, House Republicans agreed the Senate plan was still a government entitlement program for “able-bodied adults” that would increase […]

Ryan RayJune 4, 2015

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After an hours-long procession of skeptical questions from House Republicans, Rep. Mia Jones led the Senate’s so-called “FHIX 2.0” bill — SB 2A, a bill to expand health coverage to Florida’s more than 800,000 uninsured via private plans largely funded by the federal government — to a procedural milestone, as the bill was rolled over for […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2015

In an event that was half policy and half retail politics, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was joined by Audrey Gibson and Mia Jones and other African-American Democrats on Monday morning. Their shared purpose: to lambaste the governor for failing to secure federal funding for local hospitals. As well, there was more than a little bit of electioneering going at […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 16, 2015

Borrowing the governor’s often-used slogan “let’s get to work” House Democrats on Thursday said it’s time for House Republicans and Gov. Rick Scott to work on finding a solution to the impasse on health care that has brought the 2015 legislative session to a grinding halt. At an early morning press conference on Thursday House […]

Guest AuthorApril 13, 2015

Florida is blessed to have some of the highest quality cancer care centers in the world. Among them is the renowned Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, which is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. In fact, Mayo Clinic is unique among major providers of cancer care in that its Comprehensive Cancer […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 9, 2015

The House and Senate could be moving closer to agreement on a health care bill. The House Health Care Services Committee on Thursday tagged a strike-all amendment onto its direct primary care proposal, HB 7047, to include “medical tourism.” The move makes the bill near identical to a proposed committee bill that the Senate Health […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 7, 2015

Health care has been extremely partisan in the Legislature these days but on Tuesday there was an unusual bipartisan concern expressed over a bill that would limit taxing districts authority to levy ad valorem taxes if they have too many outstanding unpaid claims. The bill cleared the House Appropriations Committee but Republicans and Democrats both […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 6, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown’s re-election campaign on Monday doubled down on its “zero tolerance” policy for Zakee Fur’qan. Campaign Manager Isaiah Nelson said the campaign plans to donate Fur’qan’s 2011 donation of $200 to the first Brown campaign. “This individual is not a part in our campaign in any way. To ensure that is clear, we will […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 12, 2015

A House health care panel approved a telehealth bill Thursday but there were warnings that the measure isn’t “floor ready.” The reason? The bill, HB 545, has no requirement that government or third parties to reimburse doctors and health care providers for rendering telehealth services. “I’m concerned the bill says nothing about reimbursement and holds […]

Tag: Mia Jones

House passes 6 health care disruption bills from committee

House poised to vote down Senate’s Medicaid expansion bill

Senate’s FHIX 2.0 proposal advances in House — for now

Mixing politics and policy, Corrine Brown excoriates Rick Scott, GOP at UF Health

House Dems say “Let’s get to work” on Medicaid expansion

Mia Jones: Add Jacksonville's Mayo Clinic to state's cancer consortium

House amends direct primary care to (almost) mirror new Senate health care train

House bill would make hospital taxing districts liable for unsettled claims

Alvin Brown to donate 2011 Zakee Fur’qan donation to charity

House OKs telehealth bill; reimbursement issue looms