Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, presented his first video weekly report of 2019 and talked about his first bill for the 2019 Legislative Session which will provide $50 million in annual state funding to save the Indian River Lagoon. […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, contending that the state will likely lose federal money it is now receiving to help hospitals, is calling on any hospital that receives taxpayer support to share profits to help each other. […]
The Florida House – at odds with the state Senate over the expansion of Medicaid – abruptly ended its session three days early on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of bills unrelated to health care unfinished. […]
A push to offer health insurance to nearly 1 million low-income Floridians started anew on Tuesday as state senators took their first votes in favor of a measure that would draw down billions in federal aid. […]
Last month, the Florida House Health & Human Services Committee passed an omnibus healthcare bill that combined three controversial issues in the hope that packaging them would make it harder for the Senate to kill or dilute any of them. […]
As much as they dislike a ballot question that would let doctors write prescriptions for marijuana, Republican lawmakers are laying the groundwork to implement the proposal, should voters approve it in November. […]
Last week Florida House Health Care Appropriations Chairman Matt Hudson, R-Naples, filed a proposal that would create a new state Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research program and take steps to ensure care for Alzheimer’s patients. […]
The Silver Alert program sends out statewide alerts shortly after a senior with Alzheimer’s or related dementia goes missing. […]
House And Senate At Odds […]
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