Diagnosis for 3.27.24: Checking the pulse of Florida health care news and policy

  • Bias Rating

    -36% Moderately Liberal

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

49% Positive

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"If approved by voters, one of the proposed constitutional amendments would allow the sale and possession of recreational marijuana, a move that would rapidly be embraced by the state's already established medical marijuana industry."
Positive
28% Conservative
"Gov. DeSantis receives bill giving state regulatory control over food delivery app via AG Gancarski of Florida Politics -- Tallahassee may have something to say about what happens when you order food from popular delivery apps soon."
Positive
22% Conservative
"That clause has been cited by the state Supreme Court when it struck down previous abortion laws passed by the Legislature."
Positive
14% Conservative
"According to AHCA, there were 4,806,358 people enrolled in Medicaid in February, the latest available data."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The legal challenge against the law, however, centers on whether the ban violates the state constitution and a privacy clause that was first approved by voters in 1980."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Welcome back to Diagnosis, a vertical that focuses on the crossroads of health care policy and politics.___Lobbyists and health care providers are waiting anxiously for the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to finally aounce who Florida is picking to oversee the state's multi-billion Medicaid system."
Positive
8% Conservative
"But a new study by Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., director of the Miami Itch Center, and Santosh Mishra, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and associate professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, found that a B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plays a key role in chronic itch severity and can help to identify certain types of itch with a simple blood test.-- New rule: The Biden-Harris Administration unveiled a final rule aimed at protecting and improving how millions of eligible people apply for, renew, and maintain health care coverage through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program (BHP)."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Live Healthy does not include a Medicaid expansion as allowable under the federal health care law often referred to as Obamacare."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Passidomo repeatedly, throughout the 2024 Session, said expanding Medicaid would not guarantee access to health care."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Thousands of Florida kids lost Medicaid."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Whether they prevail now depends on the three justices appointed by Trump who were crucial to overturning Roe vs. Wade:"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Gov. DeSantis receives bill giving state regulatory control over food delivery app via AG Gancarski of Florida Politics -- Tallahassee may have something to say about what happens when you order food from popular delivery apps soon."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The measure (SB 474), which DeSantis quietly signed, exempts photos, videos and audio recordings of people taking their own lives from general public records requests."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Gov. DeSantis signs Kathleen Passidomo's signature 'Live Healthy' package via Christine Jordan Sexton of Florida Politics -- The Governor signed a quartet of bills that infuse $1.2 billion into Florida's health care workforce so the state can prepare for a burgeoning and aging population."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Gov. DeSantis signs bill requiring DNA samples from all Florida inmates via Jesse Scheckner of Florida Politics -- DeSantis signed legislation that could lead to cold case closures across the Sunshine State."
Positive
0% Conservative
"From his personal social media account on X, DeSantis offered a snarky quote tweet of a post from one of his followers."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"DeSantis has received SB 676, which passed the Senate and House without a no vote this Session."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Gov. Ron DeSantis has already sounded off about what he calls the broad impact of the initiative although he also has suggested that he expects the Supreme Court to allow the measure to go before voters."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"AHF has filed dozens of lawsuits in jurisdictions across the country, and they are represented by one of the most powerful lobbyists in Florida, Brian Ballard, who has close ties to DeSantis and former President Trump."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"AHF has filed dozens of lawsuits in jurisdictions across the country, and they are represented by one of the most powerful lobbyists in Florida, Brian Ballard, who has close ties to DeSantis and former President Trump."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"There have already been calls for DeSantis to veto the bill.-- Abortion rights --The other proposed amendment the court must review is an abortion rights measure that would block the state from prohibiting abortion up to the point of viability, which is usually around 24 weeks of pregnancy."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Ron DeSantis pans 'phony narratives' from media about measles via AG Gancarski of Florida Politics -- Florida's Governor is irked by what he says is disproportionate coverage of measles outbreaks."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Gov. DeSantis signs bill to keep suicide media, autopsy reports confidential via Jesse Scheckner of Florida Politics -- Autopsy reports for people who died by suicide and media depicting the act will be shielded from public view under a new Florida law."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Since taking office, DeSantis has pushed multiple measures to address illegal immigration, including a bill passed in 2023 that required hospitals to ask people about their immigration status."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Whether they prevail now depends on the three justices appointed by Trump who were crucial to overturning Roe vs. Wade:"
Negative
-20% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : If approved by voters, one of the proposed constitutional amendments would allow the sale and possession of recreational marijuana, a move that would rapidly be embraced by the state's already established medical marijuana industry.
61% : ""Gov. DeSantis receives bill giving state regulatory control over food delivery app" via AG Gancarski of Florida Politics -- Tallahassee may have something to say about what happens when you order food from popular delivery apps soon.
57% : That clause has been cited by the state Supreme Court when it struck down previous abortion laws passed by the Legislature.
55% : According to AHCA, there were 4,806,358 people enrolled in Medicaid in February, the latest available data.
55% : The legal challenge against the law, however, centers on whether the ban violates the state constitution and a privacy clause that was first approved by voters in 1980.
54% : Welcome back to Diagnosis, a vertical that focuses on the crossroads of health care policy and politics.___Lobbyists and health care providers are waiting anxiously for the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to finally announce who Florida is picking to oversee the state's multi-billion Medicaid system.
53% : But a new study by Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., director of the Miami Itch Center, and Santosh Mishra, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and associate professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, found that a B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plays a key role in chronic itch severity and can help to identify certain types of itch with a simple blood test.-- New rule: The Biden-Harris Administration unveiled a final rule aimed at protecting and improving how millions of eligible people apply for, renew, and maintain health care coverage through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program (BHP).
52% : Live Healthy does not include a Medicaid expansion as allowable under the federal health care law often referred to as Obamacare.
42% : Passidomo repeatedly, throughout the 2024 Session, said expanding Medicaid would not guarantee access to health care.
32% : "Thousands of Florida kids lost Medicaid.
31% : Whether they prevail now depends on the three justices appointed by Trump who were crucial to overturning Roe vs. Wade:

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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