FLORIDA POLITICS
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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Wednesday, May 04, 2005

It Never Had A Chance

    We got a big problem in Florida:
    More than 50,000 employers in Florida - including those with high-profiles in the marketplace such as Wal-Mart, Publix, Winn-Dixie, McDonald's, Burger King, Walt Disney World, BellSouth, Blue Cross, Bank of America and Dillard's - have workers on Medicaid, according to a Tallahassee Democrat article last December.
    So, Senate Democratic Leader Les Miller, Miller, D-Tampa , offered an amendment to the medicaid legislation providing that
    any for-profit business with 10,000 or more employees would have to document spending the equivalent of 8 percent of the total of its employees' wages in Florida on health insurance. Or it would have to pay to the state the difference between that amount and what it does pay for health coverage. A similar rule would apply to non-profit businesses, with a lower threshold of responsibility equal to 6 percent of employees' wages.
    First it passed, but then, well, it didn't. Read about the shenanigans in "Senate passes, then defeats Medicaid bill amendment". See also "A vote's not a vote when nobody believes it".

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