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Christine Jordan SextonApril 20, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott‘s administration is taking steps to try to win federal approval of a plan to draw down federal health funds after being criticized for not doing enough to ensure supplemental hospital funding will flow to the state. The Agency for Health Care Administration has scheduled two, two-hour meetings in Orlando and Miami April […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 16, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott appeared on Fox News Thursday night and accused the federal government of behaving like the mafia and “bullying” the state during negotiations over supplemental Medicaid dollars to pay Florida hospitals. “This is ‘The Sopranos,'” Scott said, referring to the hit HBO show about a New Jersey-based mafia family. “They are using bullying […]

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Tag: The Sopranos

Despite bluster, Rick Scott administration moves ahead with hospital plan

Rick Scott says feds are “bullying” Florida like “The Sopranos”