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Today on Context Florida: Jeb’s fumble, festering unrest, community worth and anger

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Today on Context Florida: Campaigns are not foreign to Jeb Bush, says Bob Sparks. However, while Jeb is not an official candidate for president yet, he spent precious time trying to recover a surprising fumble. He dropped the ball on the national stage not from a hard-hitting question by a reporter seeking a “gotcha” response, but from Fox News prime-time star Megyn Kelly. Marc Yacht says the seeds of anarchy and civic instability are rooted in poverty, unemployment, poor education, lack…

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Can health care pass when Medicaid is bogging down the session?

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Health care financing isn’t the only unresolved issue heading into the last week of the 2015 Legislative Session. A significant amount of health care policy — from what role advanced registered nurse practitioners should have in an ever-evolving delivery system to whether doctors should be allowed to override insurance companies and HMOs as they struggle to hold down health care costs — is still outstanding. Jacksonville attorney Christopher Nuland has been lobbying health care issues in the Florida Legislature and at state…

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Richard Corcoran’s fiery speech inspires new ‘Gucci Loafing’ Twitter account

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House Appropriations Chairman Richard Corcoran singled out healthcare lobbyists in Tallahassee during his closing remarks on the House budget on Thursday calling them “Gucci-loafing, shoe-wearing special interest powers.” Well, someone had a sense of humor because within hours there was a Twitter account under the name “Gucci Loafing.” The profile picture, of course, was a pair of Gucci loafers. The background shot was the fourth-floor rotunda. And the profile description read “I’m just a pair of Gucci loafers loafin’ here on…

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AFP Florida releases new ad in campaign warning against Medicaid expansion

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Americans for Prosperity Florida, the statewide libertarian group backed by the conservative Koch Brothers, is once again warning about the push to expand Medicaid in Florida. On Tuesday, AFP-FL released the third ad its latest effort decrying “Obama’s Medicaid expansion.” The new ad calls on Floridians to contact state senators to oppose the “bloated and inefficient,” government-run program. “The Florida Senate has had time to come up with positive solutions to solve the state’s healthcare needs,” said Chris Hudson, AFP’s…

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Dan Gelber: The State of the State Floridians should hear

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Here is the State of the State that Gov. Rick Scott ought to deliver and, more importantly, that Floridians deserve to hear. Thank you Mr. Speaker. It is traditional for the governor to begin this speech with an unequivocal declaration that the state of our state is strong. The state of our state is strong, but mostly for a select few. For the one in four Florida children living in poverty today, the state of our state is fragile. Nor…

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Sentinel: Doc tells Obama voters: Go elsewhere for health care

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From the Orlando Sentinel: A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.” “I’m not turning anybody away — that would be unethical,” Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. “But if they read the sign and turn the…

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Jim Greer: Endorsement of Charlie Crist led to ‘character assassination’

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Reading over the six-page lawsuit filed by Jim Greer yesterday, it says that RPOF leaders, including Thrasher, reneged on a deal that would have paid Greer a severance package of $11,250-a-month for 11 months, plus health insurance (Republicans sure are insistent about getting their own health care taken care of!), to resign his post earlier this year. He also wants damages from the party and from Thrasher (who doesn’t?) More important, the lawsuit also includes Greer’s explanation for why party leaders…

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