After shunning Medicaid expansion, Florida Republicans see the political power of tackling health care

The Florida Times Union

With GOP trying to live up to the president’s health care promise, Florida lawmakers aren’t necessarily embracing an expansion of Medicaid. Backed by a scorched earth attack on Big Pharma and the “health care industrial complex,” House Speaker Jose Oliva is promoting wide-ranging changes to the state’s medical landscape that may cause a possible side effect.

But Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said Florida Republicans are missing an opportunity by not expanding Medicaid.

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