Advocates for people with HIV and AIDS charged that insurers including Aetna Inc., Humana Inc. and Cigna Corp. have discriminated against Obamacare patients in Florida infected with the virus. The Tampa-based AIDS Institute and the National Health Law Program, an …
Florida was strongly criticized by the federal government on Thursday for barring outreach workers, known as “navigators,” from county health departments when they start enrolling people next month for insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law. “This is another …
A state Senate health committee recommended this week that the state suspend the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s power to set rates for insurers under the Affordable Care Act and instead let the federal government handle that responsibility. With federal …
Florida Gov. Rick Scott told federal health officials in a letter Friday that he isn’t convinced a state health exchange will lower health care costs for Floridians, and that he’s worried the actual costs could end up exceeding early estimates. …
Florida legislators, saying that they differ from rank-and-file state workers, have killed an effort to force themselves to pay more for their health insurance. The 160 members in the Florida Legislature pay among the lowest premiums in state government. Legislators …
Enrollment in commercial health insurance in Florida was down 4.3 percent in 2010, the fifth straight year it has dropped. The annual report of the Florida Health Care Insurance Advisory Board shows that total enrollment in state’s group and individual …
