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Ted Cruz to buy insurance via Obamacare, a law he vows to scrap

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Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday he is signing up his family for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, a law the Republican presidential candidate has vowed to repeal should he win the White House. Cruz formally launched his presidential campaign on Monday, and his wife, Heidi Cruz, began an unpaid leave of absence from her job as a managing director in the Houston office of Goldman Sachs. That meant the family would soon lose access to health insurance…

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Medicaid expansion and LIP alternative both in Senate budget, says Tom Lee

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The Senate budget will include nearly $3 billion in Medicaid dollars to expand coverage to roughly 800,000 people as well as an alternative plan to draw down supplemental Medicaid dollars to help pay hospitals and other providers for treating uninsured patients. That means the Senate and House budgets could be billions apart – a fact that could drag out the negotiations that usually occur between the two chambers. Sen Tom Lee said it would be “untenable” for the Senate to pass…

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Senate Health Policy Committee to decide how Medicaid expansion would be handled

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The Florida Senate is considering a Medicaid expansion and wants to create a new program to administer the expansion called the Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange. Senate Health policy committee members will not only debate the merits of tapping into available Medicaid dollars under the federal health-care law, often called Obamacare, but will also debate the merits of what organization should administer the new program. Senate Health Policy Committee chairman state Sen. Aaron Bean wants the Florida Health Choices Program…

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State group health plan benefits trigger ‘Cadillac tax,’ DMS report shows

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The benefits in the state group health plan will likely trigger $14.6 million in  “Cadillac taxes” under the federal health-care law, an actuarial report given to the Department of Management Services and discussed by state economists on Monday shows. The majority of the tax, or $12.02 million, will be paid by the state for those enrolled in a self-insured insurance product or self-insured HMO. Capital Health Plan — the popular fully insured HMO in Tallahassee — will be on the…

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Rick Scott warns Barack Obama that he won’t use state dollars to ‘backfill’ LIP loss

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Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to the President Barack Obama Wednesday advising the president that he will not use state dollars to “backfill” any loss of federal “low income pool” or LIP money used to both help fund health-care programs and train doctors. Gov. Scott assumed the funds would be intact when he crafted his proposed budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year, despite being told last year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the program would expire June…

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

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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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Marco Rubio floats trial balloon on tax reform at donor meeting

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In a conservative donors preview last weekend, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio unveiled a tax reform plan he intends to introduce soon with Utah Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee. The Florida senator, who has indicated he will likely run for president rather than  for re-election to the U.S. Senate, told attendees at the Club for Growth meeting his agenda: to pass an alternative to Obamacare, close the Export-Import Bank and eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. According to POLITICO’s James Hohmann,…

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