PolitiFact has ruled “true”  the allegation by Congressman Ted Deutch that the Florida Legislature ceded its ability to “negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high.”

Here is the entire ruling with analysis from PolitFact. This represents another black eye for Florida’s Legislature run by Republicans for the last 17 years but often these types of measures are passed with little organized Democratic opposition so perhaps in this case both parties are complicit and to blame.