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Joe Henderson: No matter what comes out, Donald Trump’s true believers don’t seem to care

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I could waste words here on PresidentĀ Donald Trumpā€™s hallucinations about the truth, but why bother. Yā€™all know that story as well as I do. The president either is delusional or cynical about what the people will believe or maybe both. There is a bigger story, though, one that reduces all the drama about nonexistent wiretaps and possibly existing collusion with Russia to subplots. It is simply this: His supporters donā€™t care. A large, energetic crowd of believers showed up Monday…

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Gus Bilirakis all in on GOP health care proposal

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Gus BilirakisĀ is sticking to his guns. After holding three town hall meetings earlier this year, the Tarpon Springs Republican congressman heard strong (and on occasion, impassioned) comments by some constituents urging him not support a repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But Bilirakis stayed consistently clear that he supported killing Obamacare. So, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that he intends to support the House Republican health care plan when it comes up for a…

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Puerto Rico governor asks Rick Scott for help addressing health care crisis

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The governor of Puerto Rico has asked Gov. Rick Scott for his help in addressing the nationā€™s healthcare crisis. In a letter to Scott dated March 17, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said his administration is working hard to stabilize the current fiscal fiscal and economic crisis and to ā€œput the island back on a path of fiscal responsibility and economic growth.ā€ However, he said the so-called Medicaid cliff that will come into effect before the end of 2017 threatens to derail…

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Mike Pence talks ‘disastrous’ Obamacare in Jacksonville

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Saturday saw United States Vice-PresidentĀ Mike PenceĀ and Florida GovernorĀ Rick ScottĀ talking about what Pence called ā€œthe Obamacare nightmareā€ with small business owners in Jacksonville. Scott, who closed out the news week reprising a familiar call to allow the states to administerĀ Medicaid via block grants, has worked closely with PresidentĀ Donald TrumpĀ and his administration on possible alternatives to the Affordable Care Act. While the GOP line is “repeal and replace Obamacare,” finding bill language that offers comfort to moderate Republicans in the Senate and…

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Joe Henderson: ‘Shy’ Rick Scott needs to pipe up on Medicaid expansion

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Gov. Rick Scott hasnā€™t been shy about sharing his feelings on the Affordable Care Act. Like any good Republican, he hates it. He wants it to go away. Now that Republicans have a legitimate proposal on the table to replace Obamacare, though, Scott has gone into stealth mode on the subject. In an Associated Press story, the governor did the Rick Scott Shuffle when asked for his reaction to the plan now being debated intensely in Washington. Scott said he…

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Florida’s Congressional Dems blast GOP health care plan after budget report

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As expected, the scoring of the Republican health care plan in Congress affirmed many of Democrats’ biggest warnings. And, as expected, many of Florida’s delegation wasted no time Monday attacking the “American Health Care Act” as “wrong,” “inhumane,” “alarming,” and “ruthless and cruel.” No word yet from any of Florida’s 17 Republican members of Congress on how they feel about the Congressional Budget Office legislative analysis of the bill Republicans introduced last week. Its aim is to replace “Obamacare,” the…

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Darren Soto: Current GOP health care bill wonā€™t pass

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The current bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will never pass Congress in its current form, freshman U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, an Orlando Democrat, told members of the Polk County Tiger Bay Club during a Monday lunch in Bartow. ā€œI believe ā€˜Trumpcareā€™ will be difficult in the House now that the joy of victory has subsided. And things in the Senate can come unraveled,ā€ said the new congressman from Floridaā€™s 9th Congressional District, which includes Osceola County…

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