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Rick Scott: Obamacare expanded the welfare state

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Florida Gov.Ā Rick Scott, who has asserted that he is helping PresidentĀ Donald Trump work on a replacement for ā€œObamacare,ā€ made his feelings known about the Affordable Care Act again on Friday. In an editorial on CNNā€˜s website, Scott made a number of points. Among them, that the Affordable Care Act was nothing more than an expansion of the welfare state, and an usurpation of stateā€™s rights when it comes to handling Medicaid. ā€œWith Obamacare,ā€ Scott writes, ā€œPresident Obama enacted a massive…

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State asks feds to extend Medicaid managed-care waiver

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Florida has asked the federal government for a five-year extension of a waiver that allows it to provide Medicaid services through a managed care program. Gov. Rick Scott filed the stateā€™s application on Friday, seeking to extend the program through June 30, 2022. The program would remain essentially the same. ā€œThe demonstration objectives and the financial eligibility criteria for waiver recipients remain unchanged since the Managed Medical Assistance Program extension request was approved June 31, 2014,ā€ Scott wrote in a…

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Donald Trump action on health care could cost Planned Parenthood

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One of President-elect Donald Trump‘s first, and defining, acts next year could come on Republican legislation to cut off taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood. Trump sent mixed signals during the campaign about the 100-year-old organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women’s health services. He said “millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood,” but he also endorsed efforts to defund it. Trump once described himself as “very pro-choice.” Now he’s in the anti-abortion camp. Still, the Republican has…

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Poll: Only about 1 in 4 wants Donald Trump to repeal health law

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Only about one in four Americans wants President-elect Donald Trump to entirely repeal his predecessor’s health care law that extended coverage to millions, a new poll has found. The postelection survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found hints of a pragmatic shift among some Republican foes of “Obamacare.” While 52 percent of Republicans say they want the law completely repealed, that share is down from 69 percent just last month, before the election. And more Republicans…

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CNN reports, eloquently, on the nightmare that is Florida Medicaid

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It’s been ten years, almost to the day, since Congressman-elect Charlie Crist pulled $360 out of his pocket to pay for a year’s supply of thermal blankets for 12-year-old Kevin Estinfil, and pulled the plug on state lawyers whoā€™d been fighting in the Third District Court of Appeal to deny the boy the basic supplies that were keeping him alive. Back then, Crist was the Florida Attorney General who had just been elected Governor, and Kevin was confined to a…

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Personnel Note: Beth Kidder named interim Deputy Secretary for Medicaid

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Beth Kidder is Floridaā€™s new interim deputy secretary for Medicaid, overseeing the stateā€™s nearly $26 billion state program that pays health costs for the poor. Christine Sexton of POLITICO Florida reports the announcement was made Oct. 6 in an email to Agency for Health Care Administration employees. In the current year budget, Sexton writes, the Medicaid program is slated for $25.7 billion, which could increase to $26.4 billion to pay health care costs for elderly and disabled Floridians who qualify.…

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Expand Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, Charlie Crist says

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Former Gov. Charlie Crist spent part of Tuesday morning visiting a housing development in the unincorporated Lealman area that was designed mostly for veterans and disabled veterans. Crist went to Duval Park to see for himself one solution to some of the obstacles veterans face when trying to return to private life. Those obstacles were at the forefront of a roundtable discussion he held Friday with a group of veterans. What he found was a place one vet likened to…

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