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House health panel passes six ‘disruption’ bills

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A healthcare panel on Wednesday took up and passed six bills that, combined, House leaders claim will lower the costs of health care and, in turn, increase access to doctors and services. The Health and Human Services Committee spent two hours hearing the bills, which range from establishing a new healthcare provider called recovery care centers, to eliminating certificates of need for hospitals, to allowing nurses and physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances. They all passed by comfortable margins. One…

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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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Senate’s FHIX 2.0 proposal advances in the House — for now

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After an hours-long procession of skeptical questions from House Republicans, state Rep. Mia Jones led the Senate’s so-called “FHIX 2.0” bill — SB 2A, a bill to expand health coverage to Florida’s more than 800,000 uninsured via private plans largely funded by the federal government — to a procedural milestone, as the bill was rolled over for a 3rd reading, in legis-speak. “Today’s debate made it clear that there are still a lot of questions among members — some legitimate, some…

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In Tallahassee, Mayor Alvin Brown calls on statehouse to expand health care

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Just three weeks before a May 19 runoff election that will decide whether the incumbent Jacksonville mayor is retained or replaced by the hard-charging Republican campaign of former state Republican Chair Lenny Curry, Mayor Alvin Brown came up to the fourth floor of the Capitol — where the magic happens — to call on the House to take action in favor of expanding healthcare coverage. In remarks that were at times drowned out by the ambient bustle of legislative business, Brown made…

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House Dems say “Lets get to work” on Medicaid expansion

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Borrowing the governor’s often-used slogan “let’s get to work” House Democrats on Thursday said it’s time for House Republicans and Gov. Rick Scott to work on finding a solution to the impasse on health care that has brought the 2015 legislative session to a grinding halt. At an early morning press conference on Thursday House minority leader Mark Pafford said House Democrats are ”ready to work” but that the governor “is a guy that cant spend time in Tallahassee actually dealing with the health…

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Today on Context Florida: Hunting Ground, Jacksonville Mayo Clinic, medical marijuana and two chambers

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Today on Context Florida: A Tallahassee theater on a holiday weekend is a lonely place, says Florence Snyder, especially if the film is ‘The Hunting Ground,’ a documentary examination of sexual assault on college campuses. Campus sexual assault is not a new problem. In the 20th century, universities stopped acting in loco parentis and many Baby Boomers violated by people they had thought of as friends. Some never spoke of it until years later, and others will carry the stories to…

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House amends direct primary care bill to (almost) mirror new Senate healthcare train

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The House and Senate could be moving closer to agreement on a healthcare bill about direct primary care. The House Health Care Services Committee on Thursday tagged a strike all amendment onto its direct primary care proposal, HB 7047, to include “medical tourism.” The move makes the bill near identical to a proposed committee bill that the Senate Health Policy Committee Chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean unveiled at a committee meeting earlier this week, 7084, sans a provision in the…

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