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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — April 1

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This day at the state Capitol things began to happen. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was in the House and Senate warning lawmakers that Washington wasn’t bluffing about ending a federal reimbursement program for safety-net hospitals. Nelson met with both Senate President Andy Gardiner and Speaker Steve Crisafulli. Concerning the Low Income Pool question. Nelson said, “The day of reckoning is here.” Read more here. Washington plans to end the Low Income Program in June, opening a big hole in next…

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Feds temporarily cut off LIP talks with state, Dudek says

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The federal government has temporarily cut off Low Income Pool negotiations with Florida,  making it difficult for the Legislature to complete its budget and bring the regular legislative session to an end on time. Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Liz Dudek sent a statement to the press late Wednesday night announcing that the chief negotiator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Eliot Fishman, will not be available for at least two weeks. “This was sudden and disappointing…

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The day that was in Florida politics — March 31

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This day at the state Capitol lawmakers continue to clear their desks of items before getting down to serious budget work. They dealt with the contentious issues of marijuana, abortion and fracking before having to deal with the $4.2 billion really contentious differences in the spending plans they are developing. State Sen. Garrett Richter’s fracking proposal drew guffaws from environmentalists in the audience when it was presented as a regulatory plan for an industry already active in the state. The…

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The day that was at the Florida Capitol — March 25

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Wednesday at the state Capitol we learned when the House and Senate begin talking to each other about a state budget what the focus of the discussion will be. We’ve watched the respective leaders draw lines in the sand. And we’ve seen the positions harden. And now, as we approach the mid-point of the 10-week legislative session it’s clear that the major difference between the House’s $76.2 billion proposed budget and the Senate’s $80.4 billion spending plan rest on an…

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House and Senate budgets fund additonal residency slots for docs but target far less than what Scott wants

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While they are far apart on Medicaid funding, both the House and Senate budgets have money enough to fund more residency slots to train physicians to help abate a looming shortfall in specialties such as psychiatry, general surgery, thoracic surgery and rheumatology. The House budget appropriates nearly $3.8 million in total funds for graduate medical education. The Senate budget is nearly $1.27 million in total funds for training. Additionally, the Senate budget establishes a new graduate medical education or GME…

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Bill Day’s latest: The widening budget gap over Medicaid expansion

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Both the Florida House and Senate released spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year, providing funding for everything from education and transportation to the newly passed Amendment 1 land-conservation measure. Beyond that, however, the two budgets could not be further apart; almost $5 billion, to be exact. Bill Day’s latest takes aim at this fiscal chasm, which rests on a single issue – Medicaid expansion. The Senate proposal includes a portion of the $50 billion in federal money for expanding…

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The week that was in Florida politics — March 20

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This week in Florida Politics gulfs widen; the separation between the House and Senate, environmentalists and lawmakers and relevancy and the Democratic Party grew wider and deeper. The Senate moved $5 billion further away from the House over a state budget for next year. The Senate has a plan to fill the hole created by the scheduled end of a federal program that reimburses hospitals for providing care to the uninsured. The plan directs $2 billion to safety net hospitals,…

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