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Andy Gardiner, Lars Houmann, call for more health care access, but not Medicaid

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At an industry-sponsored summit in Orlando Tuesday, outgoing Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner and the leader of one of Florida’s biggest hospital system both called for urgent help in providing more access to health care. But not through Medicaid. Gardiner, an Orlando Republican, and Lars Houmann, president of the Florida Division of Adventist Health System, told the Florida Health Care Affordability Summit that the great challenge is opening up health care to uninsured and low-income residents of Florida. “I would…

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New video: Let’s Get to Work calls Rick Scott heckler a “latte liberal”

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Let’s Get to Work, the political fundraising committee affiliated with Gov. Rick Scott, is striking back against the Starbucks patron who called him an “a**hole” this week, labeling her a “latte liberal” in a new video.  The 1-minute clip surfaced Friday on the group’s website and YouTube. The governor had stopped into a Gainesville Starbucks when former Lake Worth City Commissioner and self-professed “anarchist” Cara Jennings dressed him down in a separate video that went viral. “You’re an a**hole. You don’t…

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Rick Scott gets earful from angry woman in Gainesville Starbucks

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During a visit to a Starbucks in downtown Gainesville, Gov. Rick Scott got an earful from an angry woman over his refusal to expand Medicaid to low-income Floridians. The 47-second video was captured by another patron and uploaded by YouTube user Stephen Bender. “You cut Medicaid so I couldn’t get Obamacare,” the woman, identified as former Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, yells at Scott. “You’re an asshole. You don’t care about working people. You should be ashamed to show your face…

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Bashing Obamacare no guaranteed vote-getter in Florida, poll shows

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Bashing Obamacare might not be the same vote getter it was in past Florida elections, according to a poll put out Tuesday by Public Policy Polling. The poll found 42 percent of voters support and 41 percent oppose the Affordable Care Act. While not a ringing endorsement of the controversial health care law, the numbers are a far cry from early unpopularity. “Obamacare is not a political liability for Democrats anymore,” PPP President Dean Debnam. “Voters are pretty evenly divided…

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Why Obamacare is good even when it sucks

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It’s no secret to anyone who has followed my work over the past several years that I’ve typically fallen on the defense side of the Affordable Care Act. I read it. All of it. And that’s no easy feat. My guess is, some of the staunchest Obamacare haters haven’t read all of it. I’ve defended the law because, in theory, it is a good law. Expanding health care to more people, that’s a good thing. Eliminating pre-existing condition provisions, great.…

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Email insights: “Unprecedented demand” for coverage through HealthCare.gov

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Ahead of a Tuesday deadline, the White House is rolling out an Obamacare enrollment push this week, touting a sign-up contest and messaging hard with interviews and e-blasts. “There are less than two days remaining for consumers to sign up for coverage that starts on January 1 through HealthCare.gov and we are seeing unprecedented demand,” emailed Lori Lodes, director of the Office Of Communications with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “The energy is outpacing where we were last year ahead…

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With little fanfare, Marco Rubio single-handedly sabotages Affordable Care Act

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Quietly, with little fanfare, Marco Rubio has single-handedly shaken the foundation of the Affordable Care Act, putting President Barack Obama’s signature health care law into question. First reported by Robert Pear of The New York Times, the Florida senator and presidential candidate last year slipped in a little-noticed provision into a massive spending bill, which became the first substantive move toward dismantling Obamacare. The measure, attacking the “risk corridor provision” of the ACA, may have garnered little attention for Rubio,…

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