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Associated PressMay 29, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott will have a hard time getting local officials in the state’s largest counties to back his proposal that would require cuts for many public hospitals and instead funnel money to for-profit hospitals. The governor’s proposal could mean a possible $87 million hit for Miami’s Jackson Health System and $22 million for Broward […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 29, 2015

The federal government has received Gov. Rick Scott‘s proposal to revamp the Low Income Pool and “continues to be engaged with Florida,” but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “has not communicated approval,” a spokesman for HHS said Friday. Ben Wakana said CMS is reviewing the proposal as well as the public comments and […]

Phil AmmannMay 29, 2015

Besides gaining support from conservative groups, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, in his U.S. Senate campaign, is pushing his establishment credentials by bringing in Tony Fabrizio, one of the state’s most highly regarded pollsters. In addition to polling, POLITICO reports that Fabrizio – the principle at Fabrizio, Lee and Associates — will also be DeSantis’ senior […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 28, 2015

Some of the state’s largest teaching hospitals would lose $200 million in Medicaid funds under a proposal Gov. Rick Scott has floated to the federal government in hopes of keeping Florida’s Low Income Pool program at $2 billion. Conversely, the for-profit facilities would gain the most under the proposal being advanced by Scott, the former chief […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 28, 2015

A blue ribbon panel created to examine taxpayer funded health care costs will hit the road meeting in Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami in the next two months, inviting the lowest and highest performing facilities in the region to address the panel. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding meets in Tallahassee on June 4 but […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 28, 2015

The 2015 Special Session is being referred to as a budget session but it could just as easily be described as the Special Session on health care. Thirty-two bills have been filed for consideration in the 2015A session and 40 percent of them involve health care, either through substantive policy changes, financing, or both. They […]

Diane RobertsMay 27, 2015

Last Saturday, the Republic of Ireland came out in rainbows, saying yes to marriage equality: 62 percent in favor. Yet Ireland is a “conservative” country, still – despite clergy sex abuse scandals – very Catholic. Divorce has only been legal since 1997; and abortion is only allowed to save the life of the mother, no […]

Diane RobertsMay 27, 2015

Last Saturday, the Republic of Ireland came out in rainbows, saying yes to marriage equality: 62 percent in favor. Yet Ireland is a “conservative” country, still – despite clergy sex abuse scandals – very Catholic. Divorce has only been legal since 1997; and abortion is only allowed to save the life of the mother, no […]

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 […]

Peter SchorschMay 27, 2015

Forgive me, regular readers, for defending Rick Scott, but he’s being accused of snubbing the Florida GOP when, in fact, he has not. Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times writes today about Scott’s upcoming Economic Growth Summit where several of the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates will be given “an opportunity to talk about […]

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Miami-Dade, Broward officials oppose Rick Scott’s hospital plan

Washington has not signed off on Rick Scott’s new LIP proposal, feds say

Ron DeSantis adds veteran pollster Tony Fabrizio to Senate campaign team

Teaching hospitals losers, for-profits winners, under Rick Scott’s alternative LIP proposal

Rick Scott healthcare commission launches a “transparency” tour aimed at hospitals that won’t fork over financial data

Upcoming special session almost as much about health care as budget

Diane Roberts: If Florida is “conservative,” let’s conserve something besides freedom to cash in

Diane Roberts: If Florida is 'conservative,' let's conserve something besides freedom to cash in

House leadership takes anti-Medicaid campaign to Internet

When a snub is not a snub, even if it involves Rick Scott