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Florida ACA navigators will try to sign up more patients with much less money

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The Affordable Care Act still the law of the land, but the Donald Trump administration just made it harder to get the word out to boost enrollment.

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At panel discussion in Tampa, ACA supporters bemoan what might happen if law is repealed

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A day after President Donald Trump admitted that health care in America is “an unbelievably complex subject,” a group of Tampa women held a roundtable discussion Tuesday to highlight the importance of the Affordable Care Act in providing women quality and affordable health care. The event was held at the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association in West Tampa, organized by the groups Organize Florida and Our Future. “Before Obamacare, fifty percent of women would avoid going to get an annual wellness…

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Kathy Castor & Tampa health officials celebrate signing of “Doc Fix” Medicare bill

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President Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders of both parties at the White House later this afternoon to cheer on a recently passed bill that makes reforms to Medicare. The bill eliminated Congress’s two-decade old Medicare payment problems known as the “doc fix,” and has been hailed as a rare form of bipartisanship in Washington. “If this bill had not gone forth, we were looking at a 21 percent cut in Medicare funding for physicians,” said Dr. Bradley Fouraker,…

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