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• Milliman releases follow-up report on pension fund, waives its fees

  The company hired by the state to project the cost of closing the state's traditional pension plan to new employees released its updated report late Friday and waived its $70,000 fee for failing to use complete data the first time.  

  "We recognize this was a significant mistake, resulting in confusion [...]

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• A first draft of 'Obamacare' insurance regulations

  The Times/Herald has obtained an exclusive first draft of proposed insurance regulations that would help make Florida law compliant with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As we told you earlier, the House and the Senate have jointly hired consultant Brian Deffenbaugh to help with this task.

  The draft [...]

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• Walking the talk: Miami Reps Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen among most-bipartisan

  @MarcACaputo via NBC Latino

  According to new ratings from National Journal, Republican Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), and Raul Labrador (Idaho), as well as Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas were near the ideological center of Congress, after an analysis of votes taken [...]

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• The Barack Obama-Rick Scott sequestration blame files: HUD, DOD, HHS cuts

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  Two days ago, Gov. Rick Scott wrote President Obama attacking the Democrat for the federal-spending cuts known as the sequestration:

  "If your administration fails to do its job to responsibly manage the budget, thousands of Floridians will lose their jobs under sequestration. There is no doubt that budget cuts must be [...]

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• Atwater: wait to expand Medicaid, forgo the money

  Jeff Atwater may not be calling everyone's attention to his opposition to Gov. Rick Scott's plan to expand Medicaid in Florida as Adam Putnam has, but the Republican chief financial officer is on the same page.

  "This is going to obligate us to either in future years to a legislature that will significantly change the [...]

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• Legislators hire Deffenbaugh to write health care laws

  One of the many complications of the Affordable Care Act is how the changes in health insurance regulations put the state's laws out of whack with new federal standards. As with other aspects of the health care law, state lawmakers have resisted addressing these issues and now find themselves with [...]

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• State delays new Medicaid expansion estimates

  State analysts have postponed their meeting to discuss updated cost estimates if the state were to expand Medicaid. But that won't stop House and Senate committees studying the health care law from meeting Monday and possibly making a recommendation about what Florida should do.

  "There are many other aspects to Medicaid [...]

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• Rep. Nuñez to Gov. Rick Scott: Fight Miccosukees to block chance of golf-course casino

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  State Rep. Jeanette Nuñez is enlisting Gov. Rick Scott in an effort to stop the Miccosukee Tribe from getting the chance to turn a Kendall Lakes golf course into a casino.
  
  The tribe acquired the land in 2001 and then, years after it applied, the U.S. Department of Interior [...]

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