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Jeff Atwater will not run for U.S. Senate in 2016

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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater on Saturday announced he will not be running for the U.S. Senate next year, the seat vacated by Marco Rubio if he launches a White House bid in 2016. Rubio is expected to announce his presidential campaign in Miami on Monday. Atwater made the statement on Facebook Saturday afternoon: “Over the past weeks I have received a tremendous amount of encouragement to consider a run for the United States Senate in 2016. In response, we…

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House panel OKs balance billing ban, sponsor says unlikely to pass this year

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Health insurers and HMOs may have won the battle in a House healthcare committee on Thursday but they may end up losing the war this session. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved a bill that would ban nonparticipating providers from balance billing patients in need of emergency care under CS/HB 681. Additionally, the measure would place into law a reimbursement schedule for nonparticipating providers. But CS/HB 681 bill sponsor state Rep. Carlos Trujillo acknowledged that he didn’t think the…

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CFO’s priority bill on out-of-network emergency care killed by Senate?

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A move to prevent doctors and hospitals from balance billing insured patients who go out-of-network for emergency services and care appears dead for the session. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee temporarily passed the measure — SB 516 — at its meeting last week and the bill is not slated to be heard in the committee when it meets April 7. Under Senate rules, any bill that is temporarily deferred must be considered at the next meeting or else it’s…

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Jeff Atwater up 38%-34% over Patrick Murphy in extremely early 2016 Florida Senate poll

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Yes, of course it’s early. Nobody is thinking about the 2016 election. Right? Well, if you’re reading this, you have to admit you sort of care. And while the complete field of candidates running for the Florida Senate is very, very incomplete at this time (and we still don’t know if Marco Rubio will run for the seat), there are three candidates whose names are being bandied about as being possible nominees at the moment, along with the one official major party…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.30.15 — Mike Pence’s big moment

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Happy Monday to y’all. If you could only watch one public affairs show on Sunday, that show was ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, where two men with possible presidential aspirations gave interesting interviews. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said several times in his live one-on-one that he was grateful to get the opportunity to explain Indiana’s extremely controversial “Religious Freedom Act.” But you have to wonder if he felt that way after the interview ended, since the big news at…

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Jeff Atwater, David Jolly star at Pinellas GOP Lincoln Day Dinner

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As one of the major counties along the I-4 corridor, Pinellas County will undoubtedly be a contested piece of real estate in choosing the next president of the United States, and ensuring that it goes for the GOP nominee is in 2016 is the number one goal for Pinellas Republican over the next 18 months, according to recently elected party chair Nick DiCeglie. The 2016 election was mentioned frequently during the course of the two and a half-hour Lincoln Day…

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New poll says Floridians DO want Jeb Bush & Marco Rubio to realize their presidential ambitions

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Yesterday a Public Policy Polling survey showed that a majority of Floridians wanted neither Jeb Bush nor Marco Rubio to run for president in 2016. That was so yesterday. Literally. A new poll released this morning from St. Leo University shows quite the opposite — 63 percent of Floridians want Bush to run for president and 58 percent say they want Rubio to do so as well. A Bush/Rubio matchup shows the former governor besting the current U.S. senator, leading 39-30 percent. The poll contains plenty of…

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