Florida takes DSHS calls for a spell

Similar stories:

• Fla. Gov. Scott supports Medicaid expansion

  Fla. Gov. Scott supports Medicaid expansion

  Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday he supports expanding Medicaid and funneling billions of federal dollars to Florida, a significant policy reversal that could bring health care coverage to 1 million additional Floridians.

• Despite health challenges, Southern states resist Medicaid expansion

  Despite health challenges, Southern states resist Medicaid expansion

  Nine Southern states, all led by Republican governors, have decided not to implement the health care law’s expansion of Medicaid, even though the federal government has pledged to pay all medical costs for the newly eligible enrollees in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and no less than 90 percent of their costs thereafter.

• Washington’s kids are at the edge of the fiscal cliff

  Washington’s kids are at the edge of the fiscal cliff

  As the federal “fiscal cliff” looms, we’re hearing more about how various scenarios would affect politicians, defense contractors, high-income taxpayers, seniors and other constituencies. But an important group of Washingtonians with a lot on the line has been largely ignored: children.

• House convenes; Chopp calls for clear and simple goals

  House convenes; Chopp calls for clear and simple goals

  The state House of Representatives convened today without the type of controversy that was simultaneously brewing in the Senate.

• Willie Burton returns to Minnesota . . . to a degree

  Willie Burton returns to Minnesota . . . to a degree

  Willie Burton will walk across a stage Saturday morning to receive his University of Minnesota diploma, and it will not be difficult to distinguish him from his classmates.