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Millennials make trek to Tally to press for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare

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A group of uninsured Millennials on Tuesday presented 13,000 signatures to a top official in the Florida House of Representatives. The group did not meet with Speaker Steve Crisafulli, who, according to his chief of staff, Kathy Mears, was in a meeting. The small group presented the House with a scroll of 13,000 signatures asking the Legislature to close the “coverage gap” that has resulted because of Florida’s choice not to pass Medicaid expansion as allowable under federal law. An analysis…

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Healthcare debate will last ‘long after I’m gone,’ Andy Gardiner says

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Senate President Andy Gardiner on Monday told the press that the priority for the special session was to pass a budget and that health care — a driving factor behind the divisive 2015 regular session — would be an issue Florida will have to continue to work on “long after” he leaves the Legislature. “I just think the healthcare debate will last long after I’m gone,” Gardiner said. “I just think this is kind of the future. Whether you like…

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Compromise, collaboration will get budget, health care done, group says

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Compromise and collaboration. That was the message that Dale Brill delivered at press conference held just before the start of 2015A special session. Brill–founder of the Tallahassee-based consulting group Thinkspot— said 20 days was plenty of time for the House and Senate to come together to bridge the differences the chambers have on healthcare access. Brill was joined by Jim Cameron, vice president of government relations, Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Rev. Pam McMillan, St Paul’s United Methodist Church…

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Today on Context Florida: Special session begins, Everglades, déjà vu and the health of our healthcare system

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Today on Context Florida: Florida legislators reconvene this week in a special session to do its only real job – pass a budget. The politics of personal resentment are alive and well and back in Tallahassee, says Julie Delegal. The shortsighted idea, as Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center describes it, is this: “No one should get anything that only I should be entitled to.” Why else would House Speaker Steve Crisafulli bring up words like “able-bodied working-age adults”…

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Tampa Bay Times ups its pressure on the Legislature to expand Medicaid

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As Florida lawmakers head back up to Tallahassee Monday morning to begin a Special Session necessary to finalize a state budget, the Tampa Bay Times is taking a strong stand in favor of expanding the state’s subsidized healthcare program. The Republican-controlled House adjourned its regular session three days early in late April over an impasse in the budget largely pertaining to healthcare funding. Florida still has not accepted $51 billion in federal dollars to expand Medicaid to 800,000 uninsured Floridians.…

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Upcoming special session almost as much about health care as budget

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The 2015 Special Session is being referred to as a budget session but it could just as easily be described as the special session on health care. Thirty-two bills have been filed for consideration in the 2015A session and 40 percent of them impact health care, either through substantive policy changes, financing, or both, including a bill that would eliminate CON for general hospitals, long-term- care hospitals and “tertiary services” such as pediatric open heart surgery, organ transplantation and neonatal…

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House leadership takes anti-Medicaid message to the Internet

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As the lawmakers prepare to return to Tallahassee for a budget and healthcare special session, House leadership has prepared a 60-second Internet ad warning viewers that the same lobbyists and corporate hospital executives that “pushed Obamacare through Congress” want to expand Medicaid in Florida. The simple, animated video features reds and blues, playing off colors in the Obamacare logo. It’s paid for by Florida Roundtable, a political committee for House Budget Chairman state Rep. Richard Corcoran. Corcoran is a leading…

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