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- Health execs offer 'solutions'
- FL workers drop family coverage
- Boys survive lightning strike
- Keys hospital unhappy with HMA
- Insurers stop writing for kids
- Doctor riles family with gun question
- Hopkins' chief-to-be reassures
- Shands eyes special session
| Health execs offer 'solutions' Posted: By Nancy McVicar 8/4/2010 © Health News Florida A state senator's "Health Care Solutions Tour" kicked off in Miami today with a slide show that hit the major Republican talking points, including warnings about the cost of "Obamacare" and growth in Medicaid. Public officials and health-industry executives spoke, but no patients or advocates were there. |
| FL workers drop family coverage Posted: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality In a study released this week, AHRQ looked at employee health coverage in the 10 largest states. Florida workers had the lowest rate of family coverage of all. |
| Posted: 8/3/2010 © St. Petersburg Times Presley Hammon, 9, and his brother were petting a cow and calf when a lightning bolt struck. They all survived, but Presley's doctors say he may have cataracts and lose his hearing. |
| Keys hospital unhappy with HMA Posted: 7/30/2010 © Miami Herald What to do with Fisherman's Hospital, a facility that has only a handful of beds filled and flies all its chest-pain patients to Miami? |
| Insurers stop writing for kids Posted: 7/24/2010 © Associated Press In Florida, UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children as individuals, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty says, because they worry that only the sick will sign up. |
| Doctor riles family with gun question Posted: 7/24/2010 © Ocala Star-Banner One mother who refused to answer when pediatrician Chris Okonkwo asked whether the family has a gun says it's none of his business. He says the safety of his patients is his business. |
| Hopkins' chief-to-be reassures Posted: By Carol Gentry 7/22/2010 © Health News Florida Jonathan Ellen, the Johns Hopkins professor in line to become physician-in-chief at All Children’s Hospital, says local doctors and USF faculty and residents should not be concerned. But confusion abounds. |
| Posted: By Jim Saunders 7/13/2010 © Health News Florida Warning that it will otherwise have to cut services, Shands HealthCare wants to use a special legislative session next week to reverse Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of $9.7 million for the University of Florida teaching hospital. |
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