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Christine Jordan SextonMay 21, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott isn’t saying what his next move will be. Scott on Thursday would not say whether he would drop his lawsuit against the federal government now that Florida has been given tentative assuance that the Low Income Pool program will exist for the next two years. “It’s not even official. It’s not even done yet,” […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 19, 2015

Florida agencies responded to Gov. Rick Scott‘s call to identify critical needs that may be jeopardized if the state’s budget expires this summer including processing $152 million in child support services a month, ensuring uninterrupted supervision of incarcerated individuals and selling Lottery tickets. From the Office of Insurance Regulation to the Department of Management Services to […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 18, 2015

More than 1.46 million Floridians in Republican congressional districts will lose a total of $6.8 billion in tax credits for health care if the United States Supreme Court rules in King v Burwell that the federal government overstepped its authority by granting tax credits to people purchasing ObamCare plans through a federal health exchange. The […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 14, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott told state agencies Thursday to compile a list by Monday of critical services that people “cannot lose” and submit them to his office to help prepare a budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Scott’s memo to agency heads includes a list of critical services the Office of Planning and Budgeting has identified […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 13, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott has been on a tear lately, shooting off a series of letters to the feds. In the last two days, the governor sent letters to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding Florida’s strained relations with the federal government. Scott sent the VA’s McDonald a letter on Wednesday thanking him […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 12, 2015

As the rhetoric around Medicaid funding grows louder, Florida hospitals caught in a Medicaid financing war between the state and federal government are beginning to brace for what an austere state budget might mean. On Tuesday Gov. Rick Scott met with members of the Florida congressional delegation to update them on Florida’s “battle” with the Obama […]

Daniel TilsonMay 10, 2015

I want to serve on Gov. Rick Scott’s Commission on Hospital and Healthcare Funding. I mean, poetic justice aside, I’m uniquely qualified to help the cause. Not the governor’s cause, not the crusade to turn Florida’s healthcare system into a hardcore conservative model for what could replace the Affordable Care Act after he’s helped elect […]

Associated PressMay 9, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a longtime opponent of “Obamacare,” made a startling announcement shortly after his mother’s death, going on TV two years ago to explain that he had dropped his objections to President Barack Obama‘s health care overhaul. The Republican governor, a former hospital executive who entered politics running TV ads against the Affordable […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 8, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to hospitals Friday advising them to begin working with his newly created hospital commission to prepare a trio of ways the industry can share $3.7 billion in profits so other hospitals can withstand the impending loss of federal Low Income Pool funding. Scott has asked the hospitals to send […]

Florence SnyderMay 4, 2015

Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Fort Walton Beach Republican, isn’t the only Tallahassee twerp to publicly disrespect his elders and betters, but he’s the first in memory to be called to account in the court of public opinion. Gaetz, 31, got his law license all of seven years ago and doesn’t have much to show in […]

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Daniel Tilson: I want to be on Rick Scott's new healthcare commission

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Rick Scott to hospitals: Come up with profit-sharing ideas by May 22

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