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Gov. Rick Scott having refused millions of dollars of federal grants for setting up an insurance exchange now appears ready to move forward.  However the Governor and other Republican leaders still are not in favor of expanding the Medicaid roll by another million citizens.  The state may well decide to opt out stay under the funding …

A physician’s perspectiveAs a family physician, I have struggled to help my patients get necessary health services, but with Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the health-care-reform law, my patients and millions of Americans have improved access to health care.The Affordable Care Act ACA provides insurance security for everyone; no longer will health-care access be determined …

Perhaps ObamaCare will be remembered as the breaking point for top-down planning. There is not enough information available for the government to micromanage a system as complex as health care, which represents more than 15% of the economy. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek wrote some 50 years ago about the “pretence of knowledge,” meaning the conceit …

A cut of 60.5 million a year will effect Florida Nursing Homes in a big way.  These cuts are effecting how the Nursing Homes are paid by Medicaid for those residents that have not paid there bills.  There is an  a way that the Nursing Home industry  can add  the bad debt to their cost of doing business, …

On  April 2  2012  Alex Sink speaks on the future of florida and Florida Next.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll .pdf released last week, the Medicaid expansion provision in the Affordable Care Act has 70 percent approval from Americans. The poll also found that most provisions in the law have considerable support from the public, except for the individual mandate, which bottoms out with a 32 percent approval rating. via …

TRANSCRIPT & AUDIO: Supreme Court: The Health Care Law And Medicaid Expansion : NPR.

The Financial State Of Florida’s Medicaid | HealthyState.org – Florida Health News. University of South Florida Public Radio Reporter,  David Gulliver has written one of the best analysis of the funding of Medicaid.  In great detail he describes the two billion dollar cuts to Medicaid that only saves the state of Florida 442 million. To …

Over the strong objection of Florida counties and tea party activists, Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday signed a bill that will force the local governments to make good on nearly $300 million worth of unpaid Medicaid bills. via Scott Signs $276 Million Medicaid Bill | TheLedger.com.

Miller – McCune has a great article about the politics of the Supreme Court. As the Supreme Court considers the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid today, they must do so with great respect for their opinion to be honored. However the backlash will be great what ever decision they will make. It is my prediction …