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Today on Context Florida: Jebā€™s mojo, universal health care and the University of Central Florida

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Today onĀ Context Florida: For the past several weeks the mainstream press has reveled in pummeling the soft underbelly of the Bush non-campaign, writes Peter Schorsch. From a bad week on the trail when Jeb couldnā€™t provide a cogent response to the Iraq war question, to a host of new occupants pushing their way into the Republican presidential clown car, to an alleged ā€œshake-upā€ on his staff that involved, letā€™s see, giving a guy from Iowa a different title in Jebā€™s…

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House, Senate still divided over major budget items

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Florida legislators tried over the weekend to hammer out budget decisions on everything from hospital spending to money for Everglades restoration. But as they slogged through spreadsheets, proviso language and dollar amounts fault lines quickly developed between the House and Senate over everything from member-backed projects, education policy and whether to borrow money to pay for land acquisition and other environmental projects. Some legislators had been hopeful that they could reach a deal on the budget by the end of…

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Budget deal increases health care funding by $450 million, mostly recurring, general revenue dollars

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The House on Friday rejected a Senate-driven health care expansion plan, passed a $300 million tax reduction package and capped the day by releasing the allocations that tell the story behind the budget deal that was agreed to by the Legislature this week. Working through staff, legislative leaders reached a deal on how to divide nearly $28.9 billion between health care, education, transportation and the environment, the majority of which is recurring. The agreement puts $8.7 billion in health care…

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House poised to vote down Senate’s Medicaid expansion bill

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House Republicans appeared ready to reject the Senate’s plan on Medicaid, arguing Thursday that it is essentially an expansion that relies on money from the president’s health care overhaul. During a tense two-and-a-half hours of questions, House Republicans agreed the Senate plan was still a government entitlement program for “able-bodied adults” that would increase the federal deficit. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli said it was a “safe assumption” that the bill would be defeated on Friday. “It’s the same program rules,…

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Today on Context Florida: Special session begins, Everglades, dƩjƠ vu and the health of our healthcare system

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Today onĀ Context Florida: Florida legislators reconvene this week in a special session to do its only real job ā€“ pass a budget. The politics of personal resentment are alive and well and back in Tallahassee, says Julie Delegal. The shortsighted idea, as Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center describes it, is this: ā€œNo one should get anything that only I should be entitled to.ā€ Why else would House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bring up words like ā€œable-bodied working-age adultsā€…

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A look at the info the House is giving members on Senate’s FHIX plan, Medicaid expansion

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The House Health and Human Services Committee meets for three hours on Monday and will “workshop” the Senate’s proposals to expand healthcare coverage to uninsured Floridians by tapping into Medicaid dollars under Obamacare. To assist them the committee will have a package of information compiled by House professional staff. There are pages of charts, figures, estimates and analyses that show that the Senate’s FHIX program would cost the state lots of money. Additionally, it could cost the newly insured lots…

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First look — Americans for Prosperity goes in on Senate FHIX plan in new mailers

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Conservative political groupĀ Americans for Prosperity-FloridaĀ told FloridaPolitics.com Thursday afternoon that it will target legislators supportive of a FHIX-style healthcare expansion plan with a new mail piece portraying the ongoing Senate-driven negotiations as a “game.” The mailers feature the number to Senate President Andy Gardiner‘s district office in Orlando and exhorts recipients to “Tell Andy Gardiner we’re done playing the Health Care game.” “We want real reforms, not more ObamaCare Medicaid expansion,” the piece proclaims. “While the Senate continues to negotiate with…

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