Rick Scott on GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare: 'They can't stop'

| 7/11/2017

Rick Scott on GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare: ‘They can’t stop’

Gov. Rick Scott said federal lawmakers need to keep their word, and continue their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “They can’t stop,” said Scott following a stop in Fort Myers on Monday. “They all promised they were going to repeal and replace Obamacare, and they got to do it.” More from Florida Politics and the Tampa Bay Times.

Florida Blue Cross: Rates could jump 20 percent

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc., the state’s largest health insurance provider, will increase rates if cost-share reduction and tax subsidies in the Affordable Care Act don’t carry over to new health care legislation being debated in Washington. [Source: Jacksonville Daily Record]

Florida’s Health Plans: In the Business of a Healthy Florida | Join the Florida Association of Health Plans Sept. 13-15, 2017, in Orlando for its annual conference and learn how health plans are improving health outcomes through smart business strategies and delivering affordable, quality health care to all Floridians. • Register at FAHP.net.

Physician suicides prompt wellness program for doctors

The Physicians Wellness Program allows members of the Lee County Medical Society to receive up to six free visits per calendar year with a psychologist. A physician’s employer doesn’t need to know about their visits, no personal insurance will be billed and the medical society won’t be given any information about those who use the program. [Source: Fort Myers News-Press ]

Florida county loses suit, faces $300 million in hospital bills

In a case that could involve hundreds of millions of dollars, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a state law that directed Sarasota County to reimburse private hospitals for providing care to indigent patients. More from the AP, the Daily Business Review, and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Lawyer who backed medical pot amendment sues Florida over smoking ban

Saying Floridians knew what they were voting on in November, Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan followed through on threats to sue the state over a smoking ban included in a new law carrying out a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana. More from the Palm Beach Post and the AP.

ALSO AROUND FLORIDA:

› Jacksonville’s Sulzbacher Center respite unit stabilizes homeless men’s health, lives [Florida Times-Union]
Four years ago Sulzbacher Center for the homeless opened a 28-bed medical respite unit, which serves homeless people who are being released from area hospitals but are too frail to recover on the streets or in shelters.

› 'The Little Couple' star Jen Arnold joins John Hopkins All Children's Hospital as a medical director [Tampa Bay Times]
Jen Arnold, star of The Little Couple on TLC, is coming back to St. Petersburg as a medical director at John Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Also see the news release from Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.

› Waterman breaks ground on massive hospital expansion [Daily Commercial]
Florida Hospital Waterman lauded its commitment to a growing community during a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for a $73.5 million expansion that includes an Emergency Department twice the size of the current facility.

› Bee venom shortage has Tampa Bay area doctors concerned [WFLA]
Doctors across the Tampa Bay area are urging people to be careful while outside this summer. There’s a nationwide shortage of bee venom, which is used to treat people allergic to bee stings and this limited supply could put many people in danger.

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