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Hospital meeting is two weeks away but still no word on Rick Scott’s appointments

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Gov. Rick Scott‘s blue-ribbon healthcare and hospital commission is meeting in two weeks but the Governor’s Office is quiet on the appointments. Scott created the commission via executive order last week. The order doesn’t mention how many members would be on the commission or if any of them would be lawmakers but it did note that the governor would appoint the executive director and that it would be staffed by the Agency for Health Care Administration. Though details haven’t been released,…

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Interest mounting in Rick Scott’s healthcare/hospital commission

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Interest is mounting in Gov. Rick Scott’s new healthcare commission. State Sen. Eleanor Sobel is the latest to publicly announce her desire to serve on the commission and sent a press release announcing she is requesting Scott place her on the commission. The release notes with Sobel “you get a broad range of knowledge and experience dealing with healthcare issues.” Sobel is the vice chair of the Senate healthcare policy committee and serves on the healthcare spending committee. Sobel said in…

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Rene Garcia wants in on Rick Scott’s healthcare, hospital commission

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State Sen. Rene Garcia sent the governor a letter on Wednesday expressing his interest in serving on the new healthcare and hospital commission the governor created through an executive order. “Our state is facing many critical healthcare challenges and our hospitals are an important partner in providing services to Floridians in need of medical treatment,” Garcia said in a letter to Gov. Rick Scott. “My constituents include many patients of the Jackson Memorial Health Care System.” Additionally, Garcia, who chairs…

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House Speaker Steve Crisafulli apologizes for Matt Gaetz’s tweet

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House Speaker Steve Crisafulli late Thursday night apologized for a controversial Twitter post made by state Rep. Matt Gaetz. Crisafulli said he “does not condone the Tweet by @MattGaetz. He is an agitator, yes, but not a racist. Please accept my apology to those offended.” Gaetz started a Twitter war Thursday afternoon after remarking that the Senate Democrats’ lawsuit filed at the Florida Supreme Court “rea(d) like it was researched and drafted by Sen. Joyner and spell checked by Sen. Bullard.” It’s not…

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For some Florida Senators, healthcare budget standoff isn’t business, it’s personal

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As the 2015 legislative session winds down – and the state’s budget standoff heats up – money is on everyone’s mind. With that, the darkening prospects of the House and Senate settling differences over Medicaid expansion lead a casual (and maybe not so casual) observer to ask the obvious question. Why? Why is the Senate willing to serve more than 800,000 uninsured, low-income Floridians, while the House steadfastly opposes, with no end in sight? One possible explanation lies in an…

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Rick Scott turns up the heat on Florida Senate and hospitals

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With just eight days left in the 2015 legislative session, Gov. Rick Scott has turned up the heat on the Florida Senate. Scott called Democrat and Republican senators into his office on Wednesday to discuss his legislative priorities, such as tax cuts and increased spending for education. He also advised the senators that he could wield his veto pen on their priority legislation or on funding issues, if and when a budget is passed. State Sen. Jeremy Ring told Florida Politics he met with Scott…

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Special session seems imminent as Medicaid fight continues

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Florida House leaders met behind closed doors Tuesday while Senate leaders held a special hearing in a last-ditch attempt to agree on Medicaid and finalize a budget as the need for a special session seemed imminent. Impassioned senators, including many Republicans, tried to put aside politics and put a human face on the bickering between the House, Senate, Gov. Rick Scott and the Obama administration over Medicaid expansion and funds for hospitals that serve low-income patients. “The people that we’re…

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