U.S. Senate's Medicaid funding vote will help Florida balance budget
The U.S. Senate approved emergency funding on Wednesday for state Medicaid programs, but Florida lawmakers may use much of the state's share to boost spending on other budget areas.
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How to avoid a C-section in South Florida
Learning that I was pregnant was joyful. Facing the prospect of giving birth in metropolitan Miami was not.
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Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to Massachusetts.
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Gambling, state budget on Florida Legislature's agenda
Gambling talks continue in the Legislature Thursday, as the House committee charged with drafting a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida considers the impact of Vegas-style casinos on the state's tourism industry and economy.
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Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects
UPDATED: WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to ...
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Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects
President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
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U.S. Senate approves Medicaid stimulus extension
The U.S. Senate has just voted 62-36 for a bill that would extend emergency stimulus funding for state Medicaid programs through June 2011.
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Sweetened deals bad for our health
Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the sweetheart deals have been excised.
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South Floridian charged with Medicaid fraud
Juan Blandy, owner of Supreme Home Health Care Agency, was arrested last week by the Florida attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and Miami-Dade Police.
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States cut while Washington spends, oblivious
There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, on one side, and governors and legislators around the country on the other.
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Florida stands 41st on maternal mortality ranking with 13.1 deaths per 100,000 live births
In releasing a new report on maternal health nationwide, Amnesty International today revealed that flaws and shocking disparities in maternal health care that the government is ignoring lead to two to three women dying daily in the United States from pregnancy-related complications, with half of these deaths believed preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A state-by-state ...
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Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing.
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Florida loses out on census-based dollars, study shows
A new think-tank study released on the eve of the 2010 census has some eye-opening news about the decennial count's import for Floridians: In a national ranking, the amount of census-based aid flowing to the state and the three-county South Florida region puts both in the bottom five.
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U.S. May Aid Florida Budget
As state economists confirmed the $3.2 billion shortfall that Florida is facing next year, a bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that could shrink Florida's budget gap by one-third.
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Spat Over Health Bill Deals
Obama tries to ax state special projects in health reform, but he and advisers used backroom deals to advance bill • WH Officials Say Health Care Bill 'Still a Jump Ball' • Obama Prepares Overhaul of No Child Left Behind • GOP Accuses Dems of 'Bitter' Drive to Pass Health Bill • YOU DECIDE: Is Health Care Reform Doomed?
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Tom Fahey: Broderick says NH has 'too many courts"
Name a state agency that has more locations than Wal-Mart. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Broderick did last week -- his court system.
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Florida Revenue Projections Mostly On Target
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Cash-strapped Florida lawmakers aren't getting any help from a new general revenue estimate issued Tuesday, but the figures aren't causing them any grief, either.
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Senators Resist Obama Over Projects in Health Bill
Obama's proposal to eliminate state-specific items in the health care bill comes with polls finding heightened public opposition to backroom political deals. 
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Florida lags in U.S. aid based on Census
A study released on the eve of the 2010 Census has some eye-opening news about the count's importance for Floridians: In a national ranking, the amount of Census-based aid flowing to the state and the three-county South Florida region puts both in the bottom five.
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Election 2010: The Governor’s Race/ Ron Sparks
This Fort Payne native says education is his top issue, and he believes legalizing gambling can help pay for pre-kindergarten as well as students’ college tuition.
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