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Small business wants special session to take up workers’ compensation reform

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Proponents of a workers’ compensation fix would want the matter debated during next week’s special session of the Legislature. The National Federation of Independent Business was the first to issue a public call to that end. Florida director Bill Herrle released a letter to Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders, arguing, “Florida’s economic growth cannot wait until 2018.” The House and Senate debated, but could not agree, on how to prevent repeat of the 14.5 percent increase in workers’ compensation…

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Rick Scott’s healthcare commission the hot ticket in town

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There are more questions than answers in Tallahassee regarding healthcare financing, Medicaid and the inevitable special session this summer. One thing is for sure, though: there’s plenty of interest in serving on the healthcare commission that Gov. Rick Scott created through an executive order on Tuesday and tasked with analyzing the state’s healthcare costs and investigate what can be done to lower them. “It is the intent of this administration to continue to develop cost-effective, patient-cenered approaches for making healthcare…

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