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Gov. Rick Scott tried again this past legislative session to make all state employees pay the same amount for health insurance.

Part of Scott's campaign pledge was to bring state health insurance costs in line with the national average.

Scott proposed all state workers pay $50 for individual coverage or $180 for family coverage, saving the state about $43.4 million.

That's what rank-and-file state employees pay now.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott says his campaign pledge to create 700,00 jobs in seven years is right on schedule.

PolitiFact Florida says that claim is mostly false.

Have tax breaks for insurance companies created tens of thousands of new jobs in Florida? And while you may have heard the rumors about "Obama-phones",  what about "Marco-phones"? WUSF's Steve Newborn talks with Angie Holan of Politifact.com to dispel these rumors.

First, about those jobs:

Politifact.com took a look at a claim by the state's largest industry lobbying group that says a tax breaks for insurance companies created "40,000 jobs in just the last four years."

A TV ad stating just that is airing in the Tampa Bay area from Associated Industries of Florida. The group doesn't want the insurance industry to lose a tax break it has enjoyed for more than 30 years. Check it out:

When former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told the recent Conservative Political Action Conference -- CPAC -- that driverless cars being tested have driven 300,000 accident-free miles, he was mostly accurate.

PolitiFact heard about that statement delivered during a speech about the technological superiority of the United States and decided to check it out.

And, PolitiFact's Angie Holan said they found the statement to be mostly true.