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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bills supporters say could improve access to health care
The bills were a priority of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, who dubbed them the 'Live Healthy' initiative
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Ron DeSantis, Florida healthcare
GOP attorneys general want to sway appeals court in Florida's clash over trans healthcare restrictions
Republican attorneys general from 18 states signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief Friday urging the appeals court to overturn Hinkle’s ruling in the Medicaid case
Tags: Florida News, Health, LGBTQ+, Florida trans treatments, Florida LGBTQ+, Ron DeSantis, Florida healthcare, trans youth, puberty blockers, hormone therapy, gender dysphoria
Transgender adults ask judge to block new Florida law restricting access to gender-affirming care
The law has erected 'unnecessary barriers' to care and 'impose medically unsupported requirements' on trans people, plaintiffs argued
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Health, LGBTQ+, Florida healthcare, trans healthcare, Florida trans law, Florida trans care, trans treatments, hormone therapy, puberty blockers, Ron DeSantis, LGBTQ+
Pediatricians fight Florida House's subpoena over gender-affirming care standards
The battle comes amid Republicans' efforts to wipe out trans care in Florida
Tags: Florida News, LGBTQ+, Florida healthcare, Florida trans care, Florida LGBTQ, Orlando LGBTQ, Ron DeSantis, gender dysphoria treatment
Florida group proposes constitutional amendment protecting right to abortion
Floridians Protecting Freedom will begin a ballot initiative campaign next week
Tags: Florida News, Abortion Rights, Florida abortion, abortion rights, abortion ban, six-week abortion, Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans, Florida Democrats, Florida healthcare
Florida Republicans will subpoena trans treatment records from two medical groups
The decision is among a series of moves by lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration targeting transgender people and the LGBTQ community
Tags: Florida News, LGBTQ+, Florida trans care, Florida healthcare, Florida LGBTQ+, gender-affirming care
Proposal to ban abortion at six weeks in Florida advances, amid emotional debate
The Senate Health Policy Committee approved the measure, after lengthy and often-emotional testimony and debate
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Abortion Rights, Health, Florida abortion ban, six-week abortion ban, abortion rights, Florida healthcare
Florida trans youth can no longer start gender-affirming care, as treatment ban takes effect
Children who have begun to socially transition but have not started puberty blockers would be ineligible for treatment
Tags: Florida News, Health, LGBTQ+, gender-affirming care, trans healthcare, Florida healthcare, Ron DeSantis, hormone therapy
Federal judge rules against DeSantis’ request for minors to undergo mental examinations in transgender coverage lawsuit
The state failed to show the need to subject children to the two-hour evaluations
Tags: Florida News, Elections + Politics, LGBTQ+, Ron DeSantis, Florida healthcare, Florida Medicaid, gender-affirming care, transgender healthcare
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis targets prescription drug ‘middlemen’
He hopes to make the issue a priority in the 2023 legislative session
Tags: Florida News, DeSantis, Florida healthcare, Medicare, pharmacy benefit managers
Florida's number of children without health coverage is soaring
By Trimmel Gomes, Florida News Connection
Tags: Bloggytown, children's health, Florida healthcare, Medicaid expansion, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, repeal, coronavirus
Florida has one of the highest uninsured rates for women of child-bearing age
Tags: Bloggytown, maternal health, maternal morbidity, infant mortality, florida healthcare, medicaid expansion
Floridians are spending on average 8 percent of their income on health premiums, says report
By Xander Peters
Tags: Bloggytown, Healthcare, Florida healthcare, healthcare premiums
Number of children lacking health insurance in Florida sees slight increase
By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, CHIP, Florida healthcare, Center for Children and Families, Affordable Care Act, ACA
Health plans are now challenging Florida's medicaid contracts
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida medicaid, Florida healthcare, Agency for Health Care Administration
Florida names nine proposed medicaid health plans
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida Medicaid, Sunshine Health Plan, Florida healthcare, Florida Legislature
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's healthcare math doesn't add up
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida healthcare, Gov. Rick Scott, Florida politics, Medicaid
Record numbers of people are signing up for Obamacare in Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Obamacare, Florida healthcare, ACA Open Enrollment, health insurance, ACA
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Orange County taxpayers will have to cover OnePulse’s unpaid property tax bill
By McKenna Schueler
Moody Mills 50 absinthe house Death in the Afternoon hits the bull's-eye
By Faiyaz Kara
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tops the list of the year's worst failures of government transparency
By the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News
As opening day for the highly anticipated Epic Universe gets closer and closer, Universal Orlando continues to share information about what will…
By Alexandra Sullivan
The waterfront mansion formerly home to DJ Khaled is now on the market, and it comes with some wild amenities. The Grammy-winning…
By Chloe Greenberg
The home of "The Suntan King" has finally found a new owner. Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion founder Ron Rice passed away at…
By Colin Wolf
Orlando Amphitheater on Saturday hosted Music Fest ORL, an outdoor concert set to feature a number of big names in the hip-hop…
By Matt Keller Lehman
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