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Rick Scott offers some health-care advice to Barack Obama in POLITICO op-ed

Published on March 4, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Christine Jordan Sexton

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for POLITICO advising President Barack Obama that he should remodel the health exchange and allow low-income people to establish individual savings accounts if the Supreme Court of the United States rules in King v. Burwell that tax subsidies on the federal exchange are illegal. Florida did not establish its own health exchange and there are 1.6 million Floridians using the health exchange to purchase Obamacare plans, according to federal data. That data also indicates that…

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Dan Gelber: The State of the State Floridians should hear

Published on March 2, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Guest Author

Here is the State of the State that Gov. Rick Scott ought to deliver and, more importantly, that Floridians deserve to hear. Thank you Mr. Speaker. It is traditional for the governor to begin this speech with an unequivocal declaration that the state of our state is strong. The state of our state is strong, but mostly for a select few. For the one in four Florida children living in poverty today, the state of our state is fragile. Nor…

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Scott Administration acknowledges Low Income Pool won’t be extended

Published on February 28, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Christine Jordan Sexton

For weeks the administration of Florida Gov. Rick Scott has downplayed the expected loss of more than $1 billion in federal funds that goes to hospitals that treat the poor and uninsured. But that changed on Friday as it is becoming more evident that the state must come up with an alternative solution in order to avoid making deep spending cuts in this year’s budget. Scott’s main spokeswoman, Jackie Schutz, acknowledged that the federal government would not renew the low-income…

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Florida lawmakers conclude contentious and emotionally charged session

Published on May 1, 2010 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

From The Current: Florida lawmakers wrapped up a contentious and emotionally charged session on Friday night, spending hours debating and approving measures on abortion, a proposed constitutional amendment on redistricting, and a comprehensive property insurance bill. The session lurched to a close as the House wrapped up its work shortly before 7 p.m. while the Senate was still debating a nearly $70.4 billion budget. The Senate did not wrap up its work until 8:47 p.m. The final vote on the…

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