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Bill to Limit Dispensing Physicians' Profits in Workers' Comp Cases Is Victorious in Subcommittee

December 7, 2011 - 6:00pm

Despite a majority contingent of speakers testifying on behalf of dispensing physicians, HB 511 -- a bill limiting how much dispensing physicians can charge for their repackaged drugs -- sailed through the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee on Wednesday.

Fort Lauderdale Democrat Evan Jenne was the lone dissenter.

It was a first-round victory for the insurance industry and its business community support group, in particular the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida.

Workers' Comp Wrestlemania: the Insurance Industry vs. the Dispensing Physicians

December 5, 2011 - 6:00pm

All of a sudden a classic David and Goliath struggle is emerging in the Legislature, with the Florida insurance industry muscling up against the minority of physicians in the state who don't send workers' compensation patients to pharmacies but dispense repackaged drugs to injured workers at the point of care -- in their own offices.

The insurance industry claims that physicians overprice for this service. It claims that if the price of physicians' drugs were capped, it would save the state some $62 million in workers' comp rates.

Somehow, Conservation Coalition Manages to Give Charlie Crist Another Pass

December 4, 2011 - 6:00pm
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Apparently if you're an environmentalist in Florida, Charlie Crist is like a polar bear in a blizzard. You don't see him.

No, No, Not Newt!

December 1, 2011 - 6:00pm
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Women of the Grand Old Party -- for that matter, men of the GOP -- what could you be thinking? Newt Gingrich? Really?

Rick Scott Did Not -- Repeat, Did Not -- Raise University Tuition

November 29, 2011 - 6:00pm
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While it's fashionable to blame Rick Scott for everything bad but cancer, the governor absolutely, positively had nothing to do with a tuition increase at any Florida university.

Bad Idea to Tax Internet Shopping

November 27, 2011 - 6:00pm

If the Florida Legislature wants to pound another nail in the coffin of the middle class during this long recession, it can go ahead with the ill-conceived idea of eliminating tax-free Internet shopping.

If the States Can Cut, the Feds Can Too

November 24, 2011 - 6:00pm

How come 47 beat-up states can pare their budgets in bad times, but the bloated federal government can't?

Just Beat Barack Obama

November 20, 2011 - 6:00pm

Time for Republicans to take a deep breath and remember what the pot of gold at the end of the Election 2012 rainbow really is: the defeat of Barack Obama.

Student Loans: Housing Bubble All Over Again

November 18, 2011 - 6:00pm

Student loans are more than fire traps for millions of American families. Trust me, they're the next subprime mortgage crisis.

Spirit Airlines, the Scum of the Skies: Just Ask Spirit Passengers

November 15, 2011 - 6:00pm

Even with the greedy insurance industry and the robber financial institutions and the lineup of fat Fortune 500 pharmaceutical giants, Spirit Airlines still makes my list of Top 10 Suckiest Companies in America.

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