Daily Kos: Florida lawmakers, who rejected Medicaid, have really sweet health insurance deal
dailykos.comBeing a member of Florida’s House is a pretty sweet gig. This group, the ones who went against the will of their governor, their citizens, the health care community and common decency in refusing to expand Medicaid in their state, voted themselves a smoking good deal on their own health insurance.
House members will pay just $8.34 a month for state-subsidized health care next year, or $30 a month to cover their entire family.
Well, everyone in Florida should have known the gist of this story. But the details are even more appalling than we might have imagined. Read the whole story.
Despite explosive potential, Texas fertilizer plant had very little insurance
- $100M one estimate of the damages caused by the deadly explosion in West, Texas, which leveled a large portion of the town and registered on the Richter scale. A total of 15 people died from the incident and another 200 were injured.
- $1M the amount in insurance the West Fertilizer Co. had for liabilities on the property. According to one estimate from late 2012, 270 tons of ammonium nitrate were sitting on the property. source
Florida Runs Out of Time on Medicaid - NYTimes.com
nytimes.comThe Legislature’s inability to agree means that more than a million low-income Floridians will remain without insurance, at least in the short term. Florida has one of the nation’s highest rates of uninsured people. Public hospitals also will suffer because they will continue to have to care for those one million uninsured who seek treatment in their emergency rooms.
