The Legislature has been unfairly criticized for refusing to expand Medicaid when the blame for the growing mess in health care should be aimed squarely at the real culprit: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This law’s employer health insurance mandate is the reason that business owners are faced with the predicament of …
Tallahassee Democrat: Florida is right in not expanding Medicaid
Posted 05/24/2013The Florida Courier: Florida won’t use money for ‘Obamacare’
Posted 05/09/2013As the Florida Legislature’s latest session came to a close, Democrats renewed a call for a special session to expand health care coverage to cover more uninsured Floridians. Legislators adjourned last week without passing legislation that had been filed that would have either used federal money to extend coverage to more than a million people …
Pensacola News-Journal: Prize-winning journalist to address Economics Club
Posted 05/09/2013Pulitzer Prize winner Robert F. Sanchez will speak to the Gulf Coast Economics Club next week on how the Affordable Care Act will impact Florida in 2014. Now with the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, Sanchez is a former Miami Herald Editorial Page writer, listed in Who’s Who in America, and is a multi-award winner …
InsiderOnline: The Freedom Movement Huddles in Orlando
Posted 05/05/2013Sen. Jim DeMint offered what we’d like to think is a fittingly optimistic appraisal of The Heritage Foundation’s annual Resource Bank meeting. “All the pieces are here to win this battle,” DeMint told an audience of some 500 think tank leaders, activists, scholars, and journalists. This group—all part of the movement to return the United …
NorthEscambia.com: Going, Going, Gone: Bills Die At End Of Session
Posted 05/05/2013State lawmakers had a week-long funeral for proposals to expand health coverage to tens of thousands of low-income Floridians. But as the legislative session ended Friday, piles of other bills met the same fate. The House, for example, let die a Senate proposal that would have given motorists a break on their vehicle-registration fees. The …
SaintPetersblog: James Madison Institute praises House for holding ground on health reform
Posted 05/05/2013By Karen Cyphers on May 4, 2013 To James Madison Institute president and CEO Dr. Bob McClure, House leaders deserve credit for refusing to be rushed into expanding Medicaid this Session. “With some PPACA supporters in Congress now referring to the federal government’s implementation of the health care law as a ‘train wreck,’ this is …
News Service of Florida: GOING, GOING GONE: BILLS DIE AT END OF SESSION
Posted 05/05/2013By JIM SAUNDERS THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Posting or forwarding this material without permission is prohibited. Contact news@newsserviceflorida.com THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, May 3, 2013…State lawmakers had a week-long funeral for proposals to expand health coverage to tens of thousands of low-income Floridians. But as the legislative session ended Friday, piles of other bills met …
Bradenton Herald: Failed pension plan would have steered new government workers into private investment plan.
Posted 05/01/2013By MICHAEL VAN SICKLER — Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Reprinted in The Bradenton Herald TALLAHASSEE — After months of calling pension reform a top priority in his inaugural year as Florida House speaker, Will Weatherford could do nothing Tuesday as his plan went down in defeat in the Senate. A third of Senate Republicans joined Democrats …
Times/Herald: Weatherford’s pension overhaul still alive
Posted 04/30/2013Ethics and campaign finance reform await Gov. Rick Scott’s signature. A sweeping education bill has been passed. And an elections bill is expected to be passed this week. All were among Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford’s top priorities this session. With less than a week left, it looks as if one main priority, pension reform, …
TBNWeekly: Keep Florida out of ‘judicial hellhole’
Posted 04/23/2013Florida Voices Keep Florida out of ‘judicial hellhole’ By THOMAS PERRIN Article published on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Is Florida a low-tax state or a high-tax state? It depends on how you define taxes. If you mean the highly visible kind that pay for government services ranging from law enforcement to schools and parks, it’s …
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