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House Dems say “Lets get to work” on Medicaid expansion

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Borrowing the governor’s often-used slogan “let’s get to work” House Democrats on Thursday said it’s time for House Republicans and Gov. Rick Scott to work on finding a solution to the impasse on health care that has brought the 2015 legislative session to a grinding halt. At an early morning press conference on Thursday House minority leader Mark Pafford said House Democrats are ”ready to work” but that the governor “is a guy that cant spend time in Tallahassee actually dealing with the health…

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Former Jeb Bush health care czar says he’d expand Medicaid coverage

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Jeb Bush‘s former health care czar said Florida should take the Medicaid expansion dollars to provide health care access to the poor. However, in a FaceBook post former Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Alan Levine also said he thought the federal government was “overplaying its hand in Florida” by threatening to end the supplemental Medicaid funding known as Low Income Pool, or LIP, if the state doesn’t expand Medicaid as envisioned in the federal health care law. He also…

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Legislative leaders say budget impasse means 2015 session won’t end on time

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Given that neither the House nor Senate are agreeing to back off their positions on health care legislative leaders in the House and Senate conceded on Wednesday that the Legislature will not be able to pass a budget by May 1, the last day of the the 2015 session. However there hasn’t been a decision on how to handle the imminent overtime, or whether the Legislature should meet in a special session or just extend the current session that is…

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Senate grills, then confirms AHCA Secretary Liz Dudek

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The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee voted 8-1 to approve Liz Dudek‘s appointment as head of the state Agency for Health Care Administration but only after she answered more than an hour’s worth of questions regarding Low Income Pool funding, Medicaid expansion and how negotiations are evolving with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Senators asked some pointed questions and Dudek–a longtime state healthcare planner who is held in high regard by the Florida Legislature–gave senators the answers…

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Top Medicaid official warns feds not to ‘coerce’ state into expansion

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One day after receiving a letter from the federal government advising that uncompensated care pools were not a wise use of federal tax payer dollars, Florida’s leading Medicaid official fired off a letter  to the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday accusing the federal government of coercing Florida into expanding the Medicaid program. “(T)he U.S. Supreme Court explicitly warned the federal government against attempting to coerce states into participating in Medicaid expansion — yet that appears to be…

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Congressional Republicans send letter to feds: Don’t hold LIP hostage

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Six Republicans in Florida’s congressional delegation sent a letter to the acing director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services April 14, saying that supplemental Medicaid funding should not be held “hostage” for a statewide expansion of Medicaid. The letter — signed by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Reps. Gus Bilirakis,  Curt Clawson,  Richard Nugent,  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and  Ted Yoho — asks that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services come to an agreement “in principle” by mid-April to keep Low Income Pool funding, which helps pay for…

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Florida’s healthcare chief Liz Dudek on hot seat as Senate considers her confirmation

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The session-long drama over health care and Medicaid expansion may peak today when a Senate panel considers the confirmation of Liz Dudek, the head of the agency that oversees Medicaid. Dudek rolled through a previous committee stop, but a flurry of finger-pointing regarding negotiations between the federal government and the state over the last two weeks, has changed all that. One big question looming from Senate leaders: What did the Agency for Health Care Administration actually do to try to…

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