New bill filed
The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance & Banking met October 7, 2025, to examine how insurance companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations. A panel of insurance and technology experts representing CFO Ingoglia’s office, NAMIC, …
Plus, the growing disparity in quality healthcare
More than 29 million Americans can’t afford or access quality healthcare, a Florida bill requires labels on food products containing vaccine materials, and another aims to prevent local governments from adding fluoride to …
Plus lawyer ad bans, county health rankings
More than a quarter of a million Floridians have lost Medicaid benefits now that the coronavirus pandemic is over, new restrictions on attorney advertising on healthcare issues, and a new report on how …
Competition growing
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved an average statewide rate increase of 6.6% for existing health insurance plans for individuals on the federal exchange for 2022. Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier warns that the individual market …
Participation rate leads nation
Sign-ups for federal marketplace health insurance plans, better known as Obamacare, are up 32% in Florida over last year with almost a million more people registering, according to the group Get America Covered. Nationally, through …
Expensive health insurance, marijuana updates
The growing unaffordability of health insurance, more medical marijuana users choosing smokeable pot, and organized opposition emerges to legalizing recreational pot in the Sunshine State. All this, plus a growing number of Obamacare sign-ups in …
Price transparency, Canadian drugs, and Lyft
As we enter the season of open enrollments in both private and federal marketplace plans, the number of uninsured residents in Florida is growing, as are the number of uninsured children. For those who …