Category: Health Care Battle
Florida Senate offers health care compromise
Senate President Andy Gardiner sent out today a press release on an amended Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange – a key component of the Senate’s…
Federal LIP offer may help impasse
A day after receiving word that Florida likely will receive about $1 billion next year for a key health-care program, House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt…
Breaking news: Feds offer state $1 billion in LIP funds
State Senator Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) stopped by the Inweekly offices and reported that the federal government this morning has offered to fund $1 billion for…
Hospital panel probably will have little impact on session
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA With the Legislature set to meet in less than two weeks to begin hammering out a final…
Groups file brief in Pensacola to support feds in LIP lawsuit
Pointing to their knowledge about Medicaid-related issues, three Florida groups Monday asked a judge to allow them to file a brief on behalf of the…
HCA offers a solution to health care crisis
HCA, the for-profit health care system that Rick Scott once served as its CEO, has sent a letter to the governor offering a solution to…
Gaetz: ‘Continuation budgets; that’s Washington talk’
State Sen. Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) mocked Governor Rick Scott’s efforts to force Florida hospitals to share their revenues with less profitable facilities. On the radio…
Scott begins hospital witch hunt May 20
Gov. Rick Scott’s newly created panel on health-care funding is scheduled to spend 90 minutes next week receiving overviews of issues such as hospital financial…
Scott takes socialistic approach to health care for low income families
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Gov. Rick Scott said Friday that, like Major League Baseball teams, hospitals should share profits if the…
