With Republicans showing no signs of wavering, the House this week could take up a plan that leaders describe as a “free market” alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act. The House Appropriations Committee...

This week, as House and Senate committees take up three alternative plans to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, two main factors separate these proposals: first, whether they will accept federal funds; and second, whether they...

Offering the first glimpses of fund-raising for the 2013-14 election cycle, Senator Aaron Bean, Representative Dana Young, and future House Speaker Steve Crisafulli each collected tens of thousands of dollars in contributions during the first three months...

In a possible alternative to expanding Medicaid, a Senate committee Tuesday is expected to take up a proposal aimed at helping low-income Floridians get health services — while turning down billions of dollars in federal money, reports...

A staff amendment to House Bill 573, being proposed in today’s House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee, would strip the proposed legislation from language to require Citizens to adequately assess the value of manufactured and mobile homes and...

Senator Aaron Bean might have summed it up best Tuesday as he and other lawmakers listened to a discussion of the Affordable Care Act between an official of the libertarian Cato Institute and an architect of Massachusetts’...

Key health care industry leaders, innovators and lawmakers gathered today at the World Center Marriott in Orlando to participate in the first set of panel discussions at the 2013 Florida Health Care Affordability Summit. The Summit, a sold...