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A Florida law passed in 1988 had prevented the Benitezes from filing a malpractice suit to recoup the costs of their son’s care but promised that a no-fault fund would pick up the tab.
Alexandra Benitez soon learned that the no-fault fund, the Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, or NICA, would pay for nothing not until she had first gone to Medicaid, an insurance program loathed by many of Florida’s poorest residents for its cut-rate reimbursements and propensity to fight claims large and small.
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Have plane, will travel Gov. Ron DeSantis zipped across the state on Wednesday. Three stops. Three media markets. And at each visit, the governor held up a $1,000 check that will soon by sent out to the state’s first responders, police and firefighters.
Joe who? These checks DeSantis touted at each stop were due to President Joe Biden and a Democratic-controlled Congress sending billions of dollars to Florida and other states as part of a coronavirus relief package.
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A series of reports last month by the Miami Herald and ProPublica documented how some parents felt NICA was hoarding money while depriving them and their children of services and support from wheelchairs to modified vans to therapies that could improve their children’s lives.