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Harry Reid calls on Alan Grayson to drop out of Senate race

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Friday called for U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson to drop out of the race for a Senate seat in Florida. Reid said in a statement that Grayson claims to be progressive but seems to have “no moral compass.” He said Grayson used his office to unethically promote a hedge fund that until recently had been based in the Cayman Islands. Grayson is running in the Democratic primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. His…

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Ron DeSantis slams “Charlie Crist Republican” Carlos Beruff

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Bradenton businessman Carlos Beruff looks to be getting in the Florida Senate race, and is going to have many of Rick Scott‘s political team helping him in what will be a five-way scrum for the GOP nomination. The other four campaigns are already responding to Beruff’s entry, the first of them being Ponte Vedra Republican Ron DeSantis. “The last thing the United States Senate needs is another Charlie Crist Republican,” said DeSantis Campaign Manager Brad Herold. “Carlos Beruff gave thousands of dollars to liberal Charlie Crist…

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Carlos Beruff likely to enter Florida U.S. Senate race

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A wealthy Manatee County homebuilder is likely to jump into Florida’s U.S. Senate race in a move that would pit key members of Gov. Rick Scott‘s political team against Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera in the Republican primary. Carlos Beruff has gone from considering entering the race to likely to get in, said Joanna Burgos, a Scott media consultant Beruff has talked with about a potential campaign. Burgos said she and three other members of Scott’s team have consulted with Beruff,…

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Rick Scott’s office pulling IRS filings, making public records requests, to get hospital executives’ salaries

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Gov. Rick Scott’s blue-ribbon commission on health care and hospital spending asked Florida hospitals in May to provide the state with information about the salaries and compensation packages of their top executives. Two months later, only four facilities have voluntarily provided that information, Agency for Health Care Administration Deputy Secretary Molly McKinstry told members of the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding on Wednesday in Jacksonville. Commission Chairman Carlos Beruff acknowledged that there still is “a lot of missing information”…

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‘Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You…’ author kicks off healthcare commission’s traveling ‘transparency tour’

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The “Spotlight Transparency Tour” starts in Tampa on Wednesday June 17 with at least two local hospital executives and Marty Makary, medical doctor and author of “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care,” slated to address Gov. Rick Scott’s blue ribbon commission. Makary, associate professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, will address the Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding for 90 minutes, according to a draft copy of the…

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Rick Scott healthcare commission launches a ‘transparency’ tour aimed at hospitals that won’t fork over financial data

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A blue-ribbon panel created to examine taxpayer-funded healthcare costs will hit the road meeting in Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami in the next two months, inviting the lowest and highest performing facilities in the region to address the panel. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding meets in Tallahassee on June 4 but will kick off its “Spotlight Transparency Tour” in Tampa on June 17. It will meet in Jacksonville sometime the week of June 29 and will meet in Miami…

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Rick Scott’s healthcare commission narrows its focus to Medicaid, hospitals only

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What started out as a review of “taxpayer-funded” healthcare commission has been, so far, limited to Medicaid only. And apparently, hospitals only, even though the executive order creating the blue ribbon panel mentions insurance companies, managed-care plans and healthcare providers. The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding held its second meeting in Orlando on Tuesday and continued to focus only on hospitals and has not discussed the role that insurance companies or managed-care plans–some of which also received Medicaid dollars–play…

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