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Christine Jordan SextonMay 6, 2015

House Speaker Steve Crisafulli issued a news release Wednesday declaring it was a “very good day for Florida” after the House and Senate agreed to the first step in a special session: the dates. Special Session will occur between June 1 and June 20. “While significant discussions lay before us, today marks a very good […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott‘s trip to Washington on Wednesday to meet with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about the soon-to-expire Low Income Pool did not come to a happy resolution. As has been documented in the media, health care officials in Florida have been aware for several years that that the $2.2 billion LIP funding […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 6, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday he’s prepared to walk away from additional Medicaid funding and prepare a base budget if the state doesn’t get approval from the federal government on the Low Income Pool soon. Scott talked with reporters after a meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. Scott went to Washington to request […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 5, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott wants a Medicaid block grant. That was the governor’s message in a gaggle with reporters on Tuesday to discuss his meeting with Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday. The governor said he hopes the federal government will reconsider its decision on Low Income Pool funding […]

Christine Jordan SextonMay 5, 2015

Despite a looming lawsuit — and the meltdown of this year’s Legislative Session — Florida’s top health care official said the state is talking again with its federal counterparts. Liz Dudek, secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration, told reporters Tuesday that her agency had a “brief conversation” this week with federal officials. Dudek […]

Mitch PerryMarch 4, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday that if the state and the federal government can’t come to an agreement on Florida’s Low Income Pool (LIP) program, he won’t supplement the program with state funds. “Florida taxpayers fund our federal government and deserve to get a return on their investment,” Scott wrote in a letter to President Barack […]

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Steve Crisafulli: “Today is a very good day”

Kathy Castor says Rick Scott “fighting for a wasteful, inefficient outdated pot of dollars”

Rick Scott tells feds, “We need federal action right now”

Rick Scott to Legislature: Get a block grant

On-again, off-again LIP talks with feds back on again, Liz Dudek says

Kathy Castor on LIP program and observing the ACA on trial at the Supreme Court