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		<title>Kathy Castor calls Senate health care proposal &#8216;even worse&#8217; than House bill</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Upon the first review of what Republican Senators euphemistically call the &#8220;Better Care Reconciliation Act,&#8221; Kathy Castor says it&#8217;s &#8220;worse&#8221; than the much-derided &#8220;American Health Care Act&#8221; passed earlier this year by the GOP House. What most upsets the Democratic congresswoman from Tampa is that the bill &#8220;radically&#8221; restructures Medicaid. &#8220;This is a dramatic overhaul of Medicaid that will cause families to lose care and present a very difficult budget to Florida,&#8221; she said in a conference call Thursday afternoon. Medicaid&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Georgetown healthcare professor fact checks Florida House&#8217;s position on Medicaid</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a series of tweets on Sunday, Florida House Budget Chairman Richard Corcoran laid bare what&#8217;s been a fact all legislative session in Tallahassee &#8211;that he and his GOP House colleagues are not going to buckle under and accept the Florida Senate&#8217;s plan to propose a version of Medicaid expansion. Such a plan could allow up to 800,000  Floridians with an income of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level to get on a private insurance plan by accepting the federal government&#8217;s offer&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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