Jonathan Zachem, former head of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, has joined the ranks of Floridians who received an unwanted unemployment payment.
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Advocates say after a hard year for health care workers, cuts to Medicaid would feel like an especially difficult blow.
Florida lawmakers are facing a $2 billion budget shortfall. To fill that gap, Senate President Wilton Simpson says “everything is on the table.”
The number of people depending on Medicaid in Florida has increased by 20% since the start of the pandemic. Medicaid is the state and federal program that provides insurance for the lowest income Americans. Right as costs for the program have increased, state revenues have taken a hit. Now, as lawmakers prepare to hammer out a budget this legislative session, healthcare cuts could be part of that discussion.
In Simpson’s speech, he highlighted a host of legislative priorities, including bills related to business liability protections, minimum wage increases and Everglades restoration.
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The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 7,179 (nearly 0.4 percent), to 1,918,100; active hospitalizations went down by 11 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 3,674; deaths rose by 136 (0.4 percent), to 31,135; 3,084,403 Floridians have had at least one dose of the vaccine.
They’re off The 2021 session got off and running Tuesday: In a slight deviation from norm, the three most powerful people in state government stuck to the script when outlining their priorities for the next 60 days. There were no opening day thunderbolts. But here were a few takeaways: