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Ryan RayJune 1, 2015

House Speaker Steve Crisafulli set a brisk, all-business tone as the “people’s chamber” started the first Special Session since 2011. That was when a challenge to the body’s redistricting efforts brought the House back to Tallahassee in the summer for a quick cosmetic fix to a small number of seats. This Special Session is something else […]

Julie DelegalMay 31, 2015

The Florida Legislature reconvenes Monday in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The impasse, between Republicans in the House and Republicans in the Senate over expanding healthcare for uninsured Floridians, prompted House members to pick up their ball and leave the playground three days before the regular session’s […]

Julie DelegalMay 31, 2015

The Florida Legislature reconvenes Monday in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The impasse, between Republicans in the House and Republicans in the Senate over expanding healthcare for uninsured Floridians, prompted House members to pick up their ball and leave the playground three days before the regular session’s […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 31, 2015

The House Health and Human Services Committee meets for three hours on Monday and will “workshop” the Senate’s proposals to expand health care coverage to uninsured Floridians by tapping into Medicaid dollars under ObamaCare. To assist them the committee will have a package of information compiled by House staff. There are pages of charts, figures, […]

Bob SparksMay 28, 2015

Next week the Florida Legislature returns for an overtime session to fulfill their sole constitutional requirement of passing a budget. Not a Washington budget, but one where bean counters must have the same number of beans on the expense side as well as the revenue side. Conversations containing the word “shutdown” have gained a little […]

Daniel TilsonMay 28, 2015

Are you stuck in a “cycle of dependency”? Um, not on alcohol or drugs or anything like that, but on the government? For instance, do you count on your Social Security payment arriving in full and on time every month? What about Medicare? Do you depend on your Medicare benefits to keep you alive and […]

Ryan RayMay 28, 2015

Conservative political group Americans for Prosperity-Florida told FloridaPolitics.com Thursday afternoon that it will target legislators supportive of a FHIX-style health care expansion plan with a new mail piece portraying the ongoing Senate-driven negotiations as a “game.” The mailers feature the number to Senate President Andy Gardiner‘s district office in Orlando and exhorts recipients to “Tell Andy Gardiner […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 27, 2015

As the lawmakers prepare to return to Tallahassee for a budget and health care special session House leadership has prepared a 60-second Internet ad warning viewers that the same lobbyists and corporate hospital executives that “pushed ObamaCare through Congress” want to expand Medicaid in Florida. The simple, animated video features reds and blues, playing off […]

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 […]

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Welcome (back) to the Florida House: Session 2015 A begins

Julie Delegal: Are poor less worthy of American Dream that includes healthcare?

Julie Delegal: Are poor less worthy of American Dream that includes healthcare?

A look inside the info the House is giving its members on Senate FHIX plan, Medicaid expansion

Bob Sparks: Shutdowns, Obamacare and July special sessions

Daniel Tilson: The real 'cycle of dependency' Florida should worry about

First look: Americans for Prosperity chides Senate FHIX plan in new mailers

House leadership takes anti-Medicaid campaign to Internet

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