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Rick Scott tells FOX News that Florida will have a continuation budget; will deal with health care impasse in January

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Rick Scott made an appearance on FOX News Monday night explaining why he flip-flopped on Medicaid expansion and said he was going “to do the right things to drive healthcare costs down.” Scott told FOX’s Greta Van Susteren that he went from supporting Medicaid expansion in 2013 when his mother died to opposing it in 2015 because the potential financial impact it will have when the government stops fully paying for it. “I will not stand in the way of the…

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Commission appointees contribute to Rick Scott, his political action committee, and other GOP candidates

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Healthcare experience may not be a prerequisite to get onto the newly created Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding, but contributing to political committee and candidates doesn’t hurt. Carlos Beruff, a homebuilder from Parrish, Florida, is the executive director of the commission. A review of campaign finance records shows that Beruff gave a $107,369.69 to Republican candidates and causes over the years. Nearly $80,000 of it went to Gov. Rick Scott or his Let’s Get to Work committee –including  $3,000 to…

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Nine appointments made to Gov. Rick Scott’s new healthcare, hospital commission

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Gov. Rick Scott named nine people to the newly created healthcare and hospital board on Monday, steering clear of appointing anyone to the commission who is affiliated with a hospital. One medical doctor serves on the commission. Many of the commission members Scott appointed have made campaign contributions to Scott, the governor’s political committee, Let’s Get to Work, or to other Republican candidates, including Carlos Beruff, who will chair the commission. Beruff, of Parrish, is a member of the South Florida Water…

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Hospital meeting is two weeks away but still no word on Rick Scott’s appointments

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Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue-ribbon healthcare and hospital commission is meeting in two weeks but the Governor’s Office is quiet on the appointments. Scott created the commission via executive order last week. The order doesn’t mention how many members would be on the commission or if any of them would be lawmakers but it did note that the governor would appoint the executive director and that it would be staffed by the Agency for Health Care Administration. Though details haven’t been released,…

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

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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 the scenarios to the state by May 22 for consideration at a May 26  meeting of his newly established healthcare/hospital commission. The letter comes after…

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Interest mounting in Rick Scott’s healthcare/hospital commission

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Interest is mounting in Gov. Rick Scott’s new healthcare commission. State Sen. Eleanor Sobel is the latest to publicly announce her desire to serve on the commission and sent a press release announcing she is requesting Scott place her on the commission. The release notes with Sobel “you get a broad range of knowledge and experience dealing with healthcare issues.” Sobel is the vice chair of the Senate healthcare policy committee and serves on the healthcare spending committee. Sobel said in…

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Republican states joining Florida Obamacare challenge … again

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In what is seemingly reminiscent of its 2010 case against Obamacare, Gov. Rick Scott‘s lawsuit has picked up steam with Republican-led states. After verbally committing support, governors from Kansas and Texas jointly filed an amici curia brief with the federal court in Pensacola on Friday. “Florida won a partial and very public victory against (the federal government) and now the agency is threatening to punish Florida by punching a $1.3 billion hole in its budget unless Florida gives back everything it…

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