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Rick Scott to hospitals: Come up with profit-sharing ideas by May 22

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Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to hospitals Friday advising them to begin working with his newly created hospital commission to prepare a trio of ways the industry can share $3.7 billion in profits so other hospitals can withstand the impending loss of federal Low Income Pool funding. Scott has asked the hospitals to send the scenarios to the state by May 22 for consideration at a May 26  meeting of his newly established healthcare/hospital commission. The letter comes after…

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Republican states joining Florida Obamacare challenge … again

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In what is seemingly reminiscent of its 2010 case against Obamacare, Gov. Rick Scott‘s lawsuit has picked up steam with Republican-led states. After verbally committing support, governors from Kansas and Texas jointly filed an amici curia brief with the federal court in Pensacola on Friday. “Florida won a partial and very public victory against (the federal government) and now the agency is threatening to punish Florida by punching a $1.3 billion hole in its budget unless Florida gives back everything it…

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Rick Scott’s attorneys file injunction in hopes of making feds continue $2.2 billion in LIP beyond summer

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One day after leaving Washington, D.C., without any promises that the federal government would extend Medicaid supplemental dollars to the state for another year, Gov. Rick Scott‘s attorneys filed an injunction in his lawsuit against the Obama administration. On the surface the injunction is asking the court to issue a preliminary injunction or to support a writ of mandamus requiring the federal government to revoke what Scott’s attorneys call an “unconstitutional ultimatum,” or requiring Florida to expand Medicaid to ensure…

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Sylvia Burwell tells Rick Scott his LIP is too big

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Florida’s request for $2 billion in supplemental Medicaid funding is too high, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell told Rick Scott at a meeting, according to a release issued by the federal government. The release also says that a preliminary view of the proposed amendment “falls short” of the principles the government has concerns with. The release, dubbed a “readout,” also points out that Burwell told Scott  that whether a state receives federal funding for an uncompensated…

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Gov. Scott tells Legislature: Get a Medicaid block grant

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Gov. Rick Scott wants a Medicaid block grant. That was the governor’s message in a gaggle with reporters on Tuesday to discuss his meeting with Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Wednesday. The governor said he hopes the federal government will reconsider its decision on Low Income Pool funding so the state can prepare a budget for the upcoming year. Scott said the government should continue the program because it helps low-income people. When…

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Florence Snyder: Impossible to miss racist content in Matt Gaetz tweet

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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Ft. Walton Beach, isn’t the only Tallahassee twerp to publicly disrespect his elders and betters, but he’s the first in memory to be called to account in the court of public opinion. Gaetz, 31, got his law license all of seven years ago and doesn’t have much to show in the way of legislative achievements for his five years in the House. He is better known as a master of the Twitterverse, where he spends a lot…

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What’s the aftermath of King v Burwell? Column offers ‘pedestrian view’

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The Supreme Court of the United States has never had such a central role in the healthcare system as it recently has. First in 2012, when it was asked to decide whether the federal healthcare law is constitutional, and again now as the court prepares to issue a ruling in the second challenge to the law, King v Burwell. Paul H. Keckley, managing director in the Navigant Healthcare Practice, offers a “pedestrian view” of the practical implications of the court’s…

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