AFP Urges Florida Legislature Pass Three Health-Care Bills

The Florida chapter of fiscal conservative group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) expressed its support of three bills in the Florida Legislature concerning health-care. 

On Thursday, AFP urged the passage of three bills before the  Select Committee on Affordable Health-care Access.

“Legislators should be applauded for fending off the Obama administration’s and other specials interests’ attempts to expand government-run health-care in Florida,” said Chris Hudson, AFP’s director in Florida. “Now it’s time to focus on harnessing the innovative and proven free-market principles that can help improve the quality of and access to health-care Florida families deserve.”

AFP backed a bill from Rep. Fred Costello, R-Ormond Beach,  which “would allow primary care providers to give their patients an additional payment option that is cost effective and gives them immediate access to comprehensive primary care, all without the burdensome, cost-increasing regulations of third party insurance;” a bill from Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen, R-Ft. Myers, which “would give patients additional choices and flexibility when it comes to deciding where to receive elective surgical procedures;" and a bill from Rep. Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, to end the  Certificate of Need requirement which AFP argued was “ineffective in its original intent to drive down health-care costs, and has unnecessarily restricted the supply of hospital care in a state currently dealing with widespread health-care shortages.”