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Christine Jordan SextonMarch 18, 2015

The Senate budget will include nearly $3 billion in Medicaid funding to expand coverage to about 800,000 people as well as an alternative plan to draw down supplemental Medicaid money to help pay hospitals and other providers for treating uninsured patients. That means the Senate and House budgets could be billions apart — a fact […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 11, 2015

Health Policy Committee Chairman Aaron Bean and Vice Chairwoman Eleanor Sobel are working together on a Senate Medicaid expansion plan. The two are not agreed how it should be administered. Bean champions a little-known program called Florida Health Choices. Sobel has thrown her weight behind the better-known Florida Healthy Kids Corp., which administered the popular […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 11, 2015

Health Policy Committee Chairman Aaron Bean and Vice Chairwoman Eleanor Sobel are working together on a Senate Medicaid expansion plan. The two are not agreed how it should be administered. Bean champions a little-known program called Florida Health Choices. Sobel has thrown her weight behind the better-known Florida Healthy Kids Corp., which administered the popular […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 9, 2015

The benefits in the state employee group health plan will likely trigger $14.6 million in “Cadillac taxes” under the federal health care law, an actuarial report given to the Department of Management Services and discussed by state economists on Monday shows. The majority of the tax, or $12.02 million, will be paid by the state […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 9, 2015

The benefits in the state employee group health plan will likely trigger $14.6 million in “Cadillac taxes” under the federal health care law, an actuarial report given to the Department of Management Services and discussed by state economists on Monday shows. The majority of the tax, or $12.02 million, will be paid by the state […]

Daniel TilsonMarch 5, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter to President Obama this week. Isn’t that special? Well, yes and no. Yes, because it’s something that doesn’t happen every day. In a different world it might actually hold some promise of a constructive new dialogue beginning between presumably the most powerful man in Florida, and the most powerful […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 4, 2015

Work requirements, copayments, and commercial insurance or managed care companies are likely to be featured in a health plan that will emerge from the Senate next week as the chamber begins to discuss a health care plan the state could use if a $2 billion Medicaid financing is cut off by the federal government. Senate […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 4, 2015

Days before Jacksonville begins early voting, Together for a Greater Jacksonville has sent out another mailer attacking “Democrat Mayor” Alvin Brown. It contends that “Democrat Mayor Alvin Brown pushed for job-killing Obamacare while taking advantage of ‘platinum’ taxpayer-paid” insurance, and that Brown “broke his promise to not take a pension … when he promised to cut […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 4, 2015

Days before Jacksonville begins early voting, Together for a Greater Jacksonville has sent out another mailer attacking “Democrat Mayor” Alvin Brown. It contends that “Democrat Mayor Alvin Brown pushed for job-killing Obamacare while taking advantage of ‘platinum’ taxpayer-paid” insurance, and that Brown “broke his promise to not take a pension … when he promised to cut […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 4, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for POLITICO advising President Obama that he should remodel the health exchange and allow low income people to establish individual savings accounts if the Supreme Court of the United States rules in King v. Burwell that tax subsidies on the federal exchange are illegal. Florida did not establish its […]

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Senate budget is chock full o' Medicaid dollars, says Tom Lee

If Florida Health Choices is a gift for Richard Corcoran, he'll return it

If Florida Health Choices is a gift for Richard Corcoran, he’ll return it

State health plan benefits trigger “Cadillac tax” in 2018, DMS told

State health plan benefits trigger "Cadillac tax" in 2018, DMS told

Daniel Tilson: Gov. Scott's latest tactics in 'Operation Obamacare Fail'

Senate health plan emerging as LIP negotiations heat up

Lenny Curry PAC mailer links Alvin Brown to "job-killing Obamacare"

Lenny Curry PAC mailer links Alvin Brown to “job-killing Obamacare”

Rick Scott offers Barack Obama some health care advice