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Grassroots group made over 85,000 contacts to push for full Certificate of Need repeal Tallahassee, FL – Americans for Prosperity-Florida, the state’s leading grassroots advocate for improving access to quality health care, is applauding the Florida legislature today for repealing Certificate of Need. The historic opportunity will allow health care providers to care for Florida […]
This week in Florida, the Senate passed SB 7070 to give more educational opportunities to families. Every child in Florida deserves access to a quality education, regardless of where they live. Florida legislators have worked hard to provide more options to students by passing this bill. As we roll into the final week of session, […]
A new analysis from the Mercatus Center examining the Export-Import Bank and the aftereffects of a years-long lending cap confirms what we’ve known all along: businesses do not need the Export-Import Bank to compete in the marketplace. Since 2015, when Ex-Im last had the required number of board members to approve deals larger than $10 million, the Bank’s lending portfolio (both at […]
The latest report on Medicare and Social Security isn’t good. In fact, the trustees of the programs found that both are in a dire situation if substantial reforms are not made. Here are the three main takeaways from Monday’s Trustees Report: Social Security will be insolvent by 2035. Trustees said that at the current pace, the program will only […]
This week was a productive week in the state legislature on all fronts. Two health care bills, SB 1526 and SB 1712, both made substantial progress by passing the Senate Appropriations Committee. Each will now move to the Senate Floor. SB 1526 is in support of telehealth medicine that would expand access to potentially lifesaving products and services. SB 1712, a […]
Grassroots group urges lawmakers to continue pushing for innovative educational reforms Tallahassee, FL – Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) the state’s leading grassroots advocates for increasing educational opportunity, today applauds the members of the Senate Appropriations committee for passing Senate Bill 7070 (SB7070), a bill that takes another step in the march towards empowering students and […]
In 2017, Congress let an unfair set of corporate welfare policies – known as tax extenders – expire. They were right to do so. Tax extenders are special-interest handouts lobbied for by politically-connected industries, giving them an unfair advantage over others at the expense of everyone else. Government shouldn’t be in the business of picking winners and […]
This week in Florida, certificate of need repeal legislation made strides in the Senate as SB 1712 passed with a 10-0 vote in the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services. The unanimous support of this bill is a step towards repealing Certificate of Need laws that reinforce artificial barriers between patients and quality health care options. On Thursday, the House passed […]
AFP-FL applauds House Committee passage of House Bill 453 to empower Floridians to make transportation decisions that fit their needs Tallahassee, Fla: Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL), the state’s leading grassroots advocacy group today applauded the passage of House Bill 453, Micromobility Devices and Motorized Scooters, sponsored by State Representative Jackie Toledo (R-Tampa), out of the […]
