After more than a decade of economic recession, Puerto Rico is broke .The governor of the island, Ricardo Rosselló, announced on May 3, that he filed for a bankruptcy-type protection, as established by Title III of The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, known as PROMESA. With this measure, Puerto Rico aims to restructure its public debt that surpasses $73 billion.
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The Florida Legislature approved the state budget and ended the annual session Monday, after narrowly avoiding a meltdown over a controversial measure that makes sweeping changes to the state's education system.
Read More »According to the Florida Department of Health, Yoho’s district consists of nearly 500,000 Medicaid recipients who could see a reduction or loss of coverage.
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The administration of President Donald Trump has agreed to give Florida $1.5 billion to help its hospitals treat the poor and uninsured.
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With a vote scheduled for this Thursday in the U.S. House, it's down to the wire for the American Health Care Act, the Republican-authored bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who previously urged President Donald Trump to move quickly on a replacement health care plan, is so far refusing to endorse the replacement measure crafted by top GOP legislators in the U.S. House.
Read More »Gov. Rick Scott and other top Florida Republicans have spent more than $237 million on private lawyers to advance and defend their agendas, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday he will file legislation aimed at forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to divert more freshwater into Northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay system, in relation to an ongoing dispute between the state and Georgia over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system.
Read More »A U.S. District Court ruling from December is expected to keep Medicaid patients in need of long-term care in their homes by providing clear guidelines to case managers about the level of care afforded to such patients.
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Repealing Obamacare could cost Florida 181,000 jobs by the end of 2019, a third of which originate from the health care sector, according to a recent report. Despite this, North Central Florida hospitals are confident about their operations post-Obamacare.
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