TALLAHASSEE — A contrite Legislature returned to the capital Monday with a series of concessions and the goal of quieting the bitter intraparty feud over health care that sent lawmakers into overtime.
The House, which left the regular session three days early, gaveled open the session as loudspeakers blared the Beatles tuneCome Together, and then politely convened a workshop on the Senate proposal to create a privately run alternative to Medicaid expansion.
But leaders in both chambers acknowledged that, ovations aside, the House may not have the votes to approve the Senate’s Florida Health Insurance Exchange plan, or FHIX, which would create a privately run premium assistance program to provide health insurance coverage under Obamacare to as many as 385,000 uninsured Floridians.
