Bill Day’s latest: Florida House’s approaching ‘LIPocalypse’
A storm brews in the Florida House. Facing a massive budget hole — to the tune of billions of dollars — the state Senate last week released its proposed spending plan for the next fiscal year. The $80.4 billion proposal includes healthcare coverage expansion for nearly one million low-income Floridians and funding program for hospitals. The Senate move helps fill a gap left by the imminent end of the federal Low-Income Pool program, nearly $2.2 billion of additional money to hospitals and…