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House poised to vote down Senate’s Medicaid expansion bill

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House Republicans appeared ready to reject the Senate’s plan on Medicaid, arguing Thursday that it is essentially an expansion that relies on money from the president’s health care overhaul. During a tense two-and-a-half hours of questions, House Republicans agreed the Senate plan was still a government entitlement program for “able-bodied adults” that would increase the federal deficit. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said it was a “safe assumption” that the bill would be defeated on Friday. “It’s the same program rules,…

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Medicaid expansion would trim $790 million in uncompensated care in Florida, White House report says

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As the House prepares to debate — and most likely vote down — the Senate’s plan to expand access to health care, the White House Council of Economic Advisors released an analysis that shows expansion would reduce the state’s uncompensated care costs by $790 million in 2016. The report also shows that expanding coverage would result in an estimated 100,000 additional Floridians reporting being in good health and 69,000 fewer residents would suffer depression. The findings in the report — dubbed Missed Opportunities: The Consequences…

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Insurers prepare for Irma aftermath

Insurance companies are prepared to meet Floridians’ needs after Hurricane Irma, state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Insurance Commissioner

‘Ugly’ potential fallout from Supreme Court health care case

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A Supreme Court ruling due in a few weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama‘s health care law. But it’s Republicans – not White House officials – who have been talking about damage control. A likely reason: Twenty-six of the 34 states that would be most affected by the ruling have Republican governors, and 22 of the 24 GOP Senate seats up in 2016 are in those states. Obama’s law offers subsidized…

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz breaks out the cancer card in taking a dig at Jeb Bush

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Jeb Bush‘s answer to the Affordable Care Act is to get an Apple Watch? That’s what Democrats are saying today, criticizing him for his comments at a town hall meeting on Thursday in Tempe, Ariz. It was there he pointed to his expensive new watch when asked about health care, saying such devices can one day help people monitor not just their steps and heart rate but their specific health needs. “On this device in five years will be applications that will allow me…

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Rick Scott tells his agencies to prepare a list of ‘critical needs’ in case of government shutdown

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Florida agencies are being asked to compile a list of critical services that people “cannot lose” by Monday and submit them to the governor’s office to help prepare a budget for the upcoming 2015-16 year. Scott sent a memo out to agency heads identifying a list of critical services that the Office of Planning and Budgeting has identified for the upcoming year, beginning July 1. Those services include increased funding for K-12 enrollment; Medicaid caseload increase; a Department of Transportation…

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David Jolly says lack of trust in President Obama is causing him to oppose TPA

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President Obama’s hopes for the passage of a trade measure that would give his administration greater authority to negotiate more freely with other countries was blocked in the Senate on Tuesday, when only one Democratic senator voted to support his efforts. Obama’s goal of getting a new Asia-Pacific trade bill known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)  passed has been getting significant pushback from Democrats, who are skeptical of trade deals like the TPP because they believe they hurt U.S. jobs…

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Florida budget snarled as governor challenges ‘Obamacare’

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a longtime opponent of “Obamacare,” made a startling announcement shortly after his mother’s death, going on TV two years ago to explain that he had dropped his objections to President Barack Obama‘s health care overhaul. The Republican governor, a former hospital executive who entered politics running TV ads against the Affordable Care Act, said then in 2013 that his mother’s death had changed his perspective, and that he could no longer “in good conscience” oppose expanding…

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