Reps. Chip Cravaack, Michele Bachmann and John Kline lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.
State Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, has filed a bill that would ban banks from charging fees on debit cards.
According to reporting by Politico Pro, insurance companies are lobbying GOP-led states, like Florida, to change their mind about not implementing the state health care exchanges from the Affordable Care Act.
Florida is currently More…
Personhood USA is criticizing would-be GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney for comments he made during Monday’s debate. When asked whether Romney would propose that Congress “appropriate legislation pursuant to the 14th Amendment to protect human life in all stages and conditions,” the former Massachusetts governor responded that a federal “Personhood” measure More…
Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, spoke at a women’s health rally hosted by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Fort Lauderdale yesterday. At the event, she expressed disappointment with state and federal policy-makers and their attempts to curb access to women’s health care, including abortion rights, More…
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that the requirement in the federal health care reform law that individuals buy health insurance or face penalties is unconstitutional. It also upheld the lower court’s rejection of an argument by Florida and 25 other states that More…
The online legal resource SCOTUSblog, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court, is holding an online symposium on an issue that figures prominently in the fate of Florida health policy: the constitutionality of the federal health reform law. #
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