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Fla. Senate panel rejects Medicaid expansion

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A Florida Senate committee voted Monday against expanding Medicaid to roughly 1 million of the state's poorest under the federal health overhaul and instead proposed a voucher plan that would require patients to pay premiums and co-pays.

 

Florida Reverses, Taking Health Law’s Medicaid Expansion

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Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a leading Republican critic of President Obama’s health care law, said he now supported a three-year expansion of Medicaid to cover more poor people.

 

Health Care Reform Defiance By Republican Governors Worries Hospital Industry

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Republican governors like Rick Scott of Florida who say they will defy President Barack Obama and opt out of a planned expansion of Medicaid health coverage for the poor are setting up a fight with the health care providers in their own backyards.

 

Alaska governor cites Fla. law, refuses to enact health care law

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said he will not implement the federal health care overhaul after a judge in Florida struck down the law as unconstitutional.

 

Doctor advises Obama voters to 'seek care elsewhere'

A Florida urologist says he won't turn away anyone, but a sign on his door makes clear his disgust with healthcare-bill backers.

A Florida doctor who considers the national healthcare overhaul bad medicine has posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Obama to seek care elsewhere.

 

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