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Bill Galvano files latest round of ‘FHIX’ repairs

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Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Galvano of Bradenton filed two new amendments to the Senate’s healthcare proposal on Tuesday morning. One, the “timely-filed” barcode 852368, addresses the “sunset” provision that state Rep. Cary Pigman took issue with yesterday during the House’s workshop on the so-called “FHIX 2.0” proposal to expand health care in Florida by expanding a privately run, largely federally funded program of coverage for the uninsured. It specifically enumerates several triggers that would end the program at the end of the…

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Don Gaetz: No one is coming out of special session ‘covered in glory’

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Former Senate President Don Gaetz spoke briefly with reporters after the Senate Health Policy Committee on Monday, saying that unless the Legislature passes a plan to increase access to health care using federal Medicaid dollars, it will be a tough legislative session for everyone. “There is no way that one particular group or one particular industry is going to come out of this special session covered in glory,” Gaetz said adding, “Everyone is going to take a hit on their…

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Dueling presentations on FHIX plan show merits of health expansion all in the eye of beholder

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Healthcare committees in the House and Senate on Monday discussed the same proposal to expand healthcare access to the uninsured–SB 2A–in Florida. But it might not have sounded like it. In a “Tale of Two Cities”-esque tableau, the Senate discussed the bill for one hour before unanimously agreeing to pass it with sponsor and Health Care Policy Committee Chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean answering members’ questions. The House of Representatives discussed the measure for three hours but never took a…

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Healthcare debate will last ‘long after I’m gone,’ Andy Gardiner says

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Senate President Andy Gardiner on Monday told the press that the priority for the special session was to pass a budget and that health care — a driving factor behind the divisive 2015 regular session — would be an issue Florida will have to continue to work on “long after” he leaves the Legislature. “I just think the healthcare debate will last long after I’m gone,” Gardiner said. “I just think this is kind of the future. Whether you like…

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Compromise, collaboration will get budget, health care done, group says

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Compromise and collaboration. That was the message that Dale Brill delivered at press conference held just before the start of 2015A special session. Brill–founder of the Tallahassee-based consulting group Thinkspot— said 20 days was plenty of time for the House and Senate to come together to bridge the differences the chambers have on healthcare access. Brill was joined by Jim Cameron, vice president of government relations, Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Rev. Pam McMillan, St Paul’s United Methodist Church…

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Today on Context Florida: Special session begins, Everglades, déjà vu and the health of our healthcare system

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Today on Context Florida: Florida legislators reconvene this week in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The politics of personal resentment are alive and well and back in Tallahassee, says Julie Delegal. The shortsighted idea, as Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center describes it, is this: “No one should get anything that only I should be entitled to.” Why else would House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bring up words like “able-bodied working-age adults”…

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A look at the info the House is giving members on Senate’s FHIX plan, Medicaid expansion

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The House Health and Human Services Committee meets for three hours on Monday and will “workshop” the Senate’s proposals to expand healthcare coverage to uninsured Floridians by tapping into Medicaid dollars under Obamacare. To assist them the committee will have a package of information compiled by House professional staff. There are pages of charts, figures, estimates and analyses that show that the Senate’s FHIX program would cost the state lots of money. Additionally, it could cost the newly insured lots…

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