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Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board Recommends Deductible Health Credit Transfers and Insulin Cost Caps to Legislature - State of Reform

Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board Recommends Deductible Health Credit Transfers and Insulin Cost Caps to Legislature – State of Reform

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Last Wednesday, the Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board (FHIAB) voted unanimously to send a set of policy recommendations developed by Florida Voices for Health to the state legislature for consideration in the 2023 legislative session. Get the latest information on state-specific policies for the healthcare industry delivered to your inbox. The 8 consumer policy recommendations …

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The Florida Legislature: A Snapshot of the 2023 Legislative Session

The Florida Legislature: A Snapshot of the 2023 Legislative Session

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Thursday, December 1, 2022 With traditional pomp and circumstance, the Florida Legislature convened on Tuesday for the purposes of an organizational session. The 160-member body was sworn in before friends, family, state dignitaries and staff. This process, according to the Florida Constitution, must take place 14 days after a general election. Outgoing House Speaker Chris …

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Sugar Land doctor among first 2 Muslim Americans elected to Texas state legislature

Sugar Land doctor among first 2 Muslim Americans elected to Texas state legislature

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SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) — This year’s midterm elections generated a number of historic firsts in American politics. For the first time in the history of the Texas State Legislature, voters elected not one but two Muslim lawmakers to sit on Capitol Hill. One of them is Dr. Suleman Lalani, a practicing physician in geriatric …

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New Jersey public employees protest to prevent an increase in the cost of their health care benefits outside the Statehouse Annex in Trenton, NJ on September 13, 2022.

Lawyers push NJ legislature to cut hospital prices

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Political analysts and labor leaders are calling on state lawmakers to rein in escalating hospital prices following recent double-digit increases in insurance premiums for state employees. State insurance programs could pay hospitals more than $1.2 billion a year above the actual cost of care for those insured through state insurance programs for employees government and …

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