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All-star cast planned for upcoming CAMLS healthcare symposium

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The Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation in downtown Tampa is partnering with the Gunster law firm to host a healthcare symposium looking at expanding health care in Florida. The October 13 event will run from 1 p.m. until 5:45 p,m. with a cocktail reception afterward. Healthcare executives will form panels to discuss various components of the current healthcare climate in Florida. Those includeĀ former U.S. Rep.Ā Jason Altmire, who is the senior vice president of public policy and community engagement…

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St. Pete Free Clinic to add 30 beds to its transitional housing program for women

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The St. Petersburg Free Clinic is expanding residential services for women. The Virginia and David Baldwin Womenā€™s residence will provide an additional 30 beds for women when it opens. Current capacity is just 20 beds. The facility serves women by providing transitional housing for various periods of time to give residents the opportunity to secure employment, continue education, get sober or any other steps necessary to be able to move into permanent housing and live a sustainable life. In addition…

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Medicaid expansion left behind, but even Tampa Trib still calling for GOP change of heart

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The Florida House abandoned its session earlier this year. In doing so, they left the question of Medicaid expansion on the table. Then in a special session they rejected a Senate plan to draw down $51 billion in federal dollars to expand health care to more than 800,000 poor Floridians. Gov. Rick Scott agreed with the House’s decision. There’s not much that can be done between now and the 2016 legislative session, but that didn’t stop the conservative Tampa Tribune…

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

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Today onĀ Context Florida: Florida legislators reconvene this week in a special session to do its only real job ā€“ 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: ā€œNo one should get anything that only I should be entitled to.ā€ Why else would House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bring up words like ā€œable-bodied working-age adultsā€…

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Tampa Bay Times ups its pressure on the Legislature to expand Medicaid

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As Florida lawmakers head back up to Tallahassee Monday morning to begin a Special Session necessary to finalize a state budget, the Tampa Bay Times is taking a strong stand in favor of expanding the stateā€™s subsidized healthcare program. The Republican-controlled House adjourned its regular session three days early in late April over an impasse in the budget largely pertaining to healthcare funding. Florida still has not accepted $51 billion in federal dollars to expand Medicaid to 800,000 uninsured Floridians.…

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Today on Context Florida: Healthcare budgets, guns, testing and agricultural workers

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Today onĀ Context Florida: Maybe it is fondness for suspense that Gov. Scott and GOP House members have strung Floridians along about the future of Floridaā€™s healthcare system, says Daniel Tilson. Only one third of the way through the legislative session, and the Senate and House have drawn up radically conflicting budgets based on healthcare appropriations or lack thereof, while the lives of 800,000 uninsured Floridians hang in the balance. Guns on campus are on the Florida legislative fast track, notes…

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What does Charlie Crist stand for? His website says a lot…

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After a weekend in which Charlie Crist earned the endorsement of Florida’s teachers, but not the AFL-CIO, and saw him position himself to go after the backing of the Sierra Club, even the governor’s most ardent supporters have to wonder what will Crist not do to gain a political advantage. Ā Crist is certainly enjoying his newfound Independent status, but have his core beliefs changed? Not according to his website, at least. Take a look at the meta-tags in the source…

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