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Georgetown healthcare professor fact checks Florida House’s position on Medicaid

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In a series of tweets on Sunday, Florida House Budget Chairman Richard Corcoran laid bare what’s been a fact all legislative session in Tallahassee –that he and his GOP House colleagues are not going to buckle under and accept the Florida Senate’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’s offer…

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Americans For Prosperity runs a video criticizing Florida Senate for “Obamcare” spin

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Americans For Prosperity is taking its anti-Obamcare message to the internet and is running a video targeting the Florida Senate for its “spin” that the federal health care program would be beneficial to the state. The 30-second video features President Obama‘s face on a spinning token with the Florida Capitol in the background. “Florida Senators say it could solve the health crisis,” the Internet video says “but it could ad millions to the system without adding any doctors. They promise it…

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Rick Scott reverses course, opposes Medicaid expansion

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday reversed his position on Medicaid expansion, again announcing he will not support providing access to health care for 800,000 uninsured Floridians as called for under the federal healthcare law. After Florida Politics reported the governor’s office would not answer questions on Medicaid expansion on Friday his office released the following statement: “Our priority is to cut more than $600 million in taxes this session and get K-12 education funding up to record levels while…

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Epic battle brewing at Capitol as session appears headed to overtime

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Now we have a session — a battle of wills and philosophies in the building of a state budget. The Senate wants to talk. And in the House, the talk is about war. Both chambers have passed a state budget for next year. If you look at the bottom lines the difference is about $4.2 billion. More than numbers separate the two. The chambers may be located in the same Capitol and are controlled by the same party but the…

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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — April 2

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To understand this day at the state capitol one needs to take a long view of a 60-day Legislative Session. Think of a production of a play – the Florida Legislature spent the first half of a session putting all the pieces in place for one heck of a show. The climax will come either in a couple of weeks with the House and Senate resolving the differences in their proposed state budgets and end the 60-day session on time…

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House refuses to dance with Senate, passes budget without Senate health plan

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The House doesn’t want to dance with the Senate on a healthcare deal to balance the state budget but it’s willing to go to war. Thursday afternoon the Florida House passed a $76.2 billion state budget. The Senate Wednesday had approved an $80.4 billion plan. Most of the difference between the two is found in the Senate’s plan to replace money lost when the federal government ends a hospital reimbursement program with money available to expand Medicaid. Earlier in the…

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House Dems to reject budget, say on healthcare GOP ‘is all alone on an island’

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Florida House Democrats intend to reject the House budget plan this afternoon on three counts: They will argue the spending plan does not include enough money for education, fails to comply with voter intent on Amendment 1 and doesn’t cover a billion-dollar gap in the healthcare budget created by the end of a federal program for safety-net hospitals. The Democrats support a Senate plan to bridge the gap with Medicaid dollars. “Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle…

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