Postonpolitics: Speaker-to-be Tells Crist to Back Off On Federal Healthcare Reforms

[flpoljunkie]

Speaker-to-be tells Crist to back off on federal health care reforms

by Dara Kam | October 19th, 2010

House Speaker-designate Dean Cannon essentially gave Gov. Charlie Crist a cease and desist order telling the governor to quit enabling the federal government regarding health care reforms.

Cannon, R-Orlando, accused Crist of “commandeering of state insurance regulatory resources” by allowing executive agencies to begin implementing the federal health care reforms even as the state is suing White House agencies over them.

Read Cannon’s letter to Crist here.

Cannon’s demands could set up a possible showdown between the executive and legislative branches of government over the health care reforms, which Crist, the independent candidate in the U.S. Senate race, says he supports in part.

Cannon gave Crist until Nov. 15 to tell him how much the state is spending on workers and other resources to comply with the reforms and told him that Crist will need the legislature’s approval before taking any further action.

Cannon complains in the letter to Crist that the Office of Insurance Regulation is jumpstarting new insurance regulations by developing data systems. But that office is overseen by not just Crist. He and the Florida Cabinet – including Attorney General Bill McCollum, who filed the lawsuit over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act – make up the Financial Services Commission that’s in charge of OIR.

http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/10/speaker-to-be-tells-crist-to-back-off-on-federal-health-care-reforms/

[RockaFowler]

1. So again the republicans have won before the election??

How could he be the designate House Speaker?? What happens if the Dems win the House?? Oh that's right we have that whole Fair District thingy. Where the Repukes have control over every district in Florida

[flpoljunkie]

2. Dems are way outnumbered in both the House and Senate in the Florida Legislature

That's why we need Fair Districts--since the Republicans have drawn up really crazy districts to keep themselves in power. Fair Districts would level the playing field by making more contiguous districts.

[iamjoy]

3. How Many in District 35 w/o Health Insurance

I wonder how many people in Dean Cannon's district have no health insurance and why he's blocking it for them