Escaping Florida's Medicaid Experiment
http://vimeo.com/39349695Last year, Florida legislators passed a bill privatizing the state’s Medicaid program, moving recipients into managed care plans – a model patterned on a pilot program that’s...
View ArticleFlorida One Step Closer To Providing Seniors With Long-Term Healthcare
In another step toward transforming Medicaid into a statewide managed-care system, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said Tuesday it has chosen five health plans to provide coverage to...
View ArticleWhy Florida Lawmakers Are Now Considering Medicaid Expansion
When Florida sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers targeted a piece of the law that would have forced Florida to make Medicaid available to more than a million uninsured Floridians.The U....
View ArticleState Proposes Changes To Keep Children With 'Highly Complex Medical Needs'...
Trying to prevent what one official described as "white-knuckle moments" for families, the state plans to change the way it determines the home-based services that will be provided to children with...
View ArticleIn Reversal, Gov. Rick Scott Agrees To Medicaid Expansion In Florida
Perhaps Florida Gov. Rick Scott's motto should be "never say never."After the U.S.
View ArticleIs Gov. Rick Scott Headed Toward Sequestration From State GOP? Join The...
On the Florida Roundup, we have on the slate:
View ArticleFlorida Hospital Association Won't Accept That Medicaid Will Not Be Expanded
Burdened with the expense of medical care for more than a million uninsured Floridians, the Florida Hospital Association isn't ready to accept that Medicaid won't be expanded in Florida under...
View ArticleRep. Fasano: Medicaid Expansion 'Would Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars'
Now that legislative committees have voted not to expand Medicaid, House and Senate leaders want to look at alternatives that might still utilize federal funds. New Port Richey Republican Rep. Mike...
View ArticleLive Chat: A New Pope And Allied Veterans: What You Should Know From This...
Join us for an hour of conversation about the week's news on The Florida Roundup, live at noon on WLRN:
View ArticleFlorida Republican Leaders Under Fire For Rejecting Medicaid Expansion Plan
When they voted on Medicaid expansion in Florida this month, Florida legislative leaders mostly organized along party lines. Now, the Republicans are getting heat from their Democratic counterparts in...
View ArticleGov. Scott Takes Left Turn As Approval Ratings Flounder
Gov. Rick Scott seems to be trying to appeal to a broader base. He’s done some things lately that suggest he’s willing to turn left a little bit.Scott thrilled Democrats and irked his fellow...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know From This Week's South Florida News: Dueling Governors...
On The Florida Roundup, here are some of the items on our rundown:
View ArticleWasserman-Schultz: GOP Faces Consequences After Gun Vote
It's been a busy week in Washington, D.C.As lawmakers react to the Boston Marathon bombings, parts of the Capitol had to be evacuated after suspicious letters addressed to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker and...
View ArticleIt's All About 'Mary' The Auto Reader In Tallahassee
Speaker Will Weatherford introduced a new member of the Florida House this week.“Members, we have an auto-reader. We had it in the closet just in case we ever had to actually read the bills,”...
View ArticleWhat Tallahassee Lawmakers Failed To Do in 2013
Editor's Note: Be sure to check out an interactive bill tracker of this year's session from the Miami Herald.
View ArticleWith Health Exchanges Poised To Open, PR Push Draws Scrutiny
This weekend marks 100 days until people can begin signing up for new health insurance coverage under the federal health care law. It also marks another milestone: the launch of an enormous public...
View ArticleCould LeBron James Help Sell Obama's Affordable Care Act?
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View ArticleTop Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers
When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a crowded field of cheap generics.So its maker, Forest Laboratories, launched a promotional assault on the group in the best...
View ArticleOutreach For New Health Insurance Exchanges Targets Latinos
Andrea Velandia, 29, is just the sort of person the architects of the new health insurance marketplaces had in mind when they were thinking about future customers.She's young, in good health, uninsured...
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