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Group launches effort to bring a different kind of single-payer health insurance to Florida

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Group launches effort to bring a different kind of single-payer health insurance to Florida

| 11/14/2017

Group launches effort to bring a different kind of single-payer health insurance to Florida

After years of failed attempts to expand Medicaid insurance coverage in Florida, one recently-formed group is pushing for something more — single payer. Normally that means complete government control of health insurance. But the drive for a package of constitutional amendments is focusing on a strategy that keeps private insurance intact. [Source: ]

Florida Supreme Court tosses out part of state medical malpractice law

Saying that changes approved by lawmakers “have gashed Florida’s constitutional right to privacy,” a sharply divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected parts of a controversial 2013 medical-malpractice law. More from the Palm Beach Post and the Daily Business Review.

Opioid crisis taking toll on Florida children

More than 4,000 babies were born addicted to opioids in Florida last year, an increase of over 1,000 percent from a decade ago. Substance abuse played a role in two-thirds of the cases where children were removed from their homes within 30 days of birth last year. [Source: St. Augustine Record]

In Florida, it's legal for deceptive doctors to offer plastic surgery without training

South Florida is a popular destination for plastic surgery, but recent cases involving patient injuries and even deaths have exposed the risks patients can face. When it comes to going under the knife, some doctors are not always what they seem. [Source: ]

Displaced Puerto Ricans face medical insurance confusion in Central Florida

In the midst of a humanitarian crisis that has already brought more than 143,000 people into the state since Oct. 3, Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida are finding a confusing health-care system, with deductibles higher than those they are used on the island and private insurance plans that don’t transfer smoothly. [Source: ]

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