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Marc YachtJanuary 27, 2014

Refusing to expand Medicaid and accept the huge amount of federal money that goes with it continues to haunt Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Legislature. Without the expansion many working Floridians who earn between the poverty line and 138 percent of poverty will go without health insurance. A Jackson Hewitt tax service report estimates […]

Marc YachtJanuary 1, 2014

Opponents of Obamacare (The Affordable Health Care for America Act, 2010) have relentlessly attacked the legislation, including dozens of attempts to kill the bill or thwart funding. In spite of such efforts, 2.1 million Americans who could not afford coverage in the past have signed up thus far. Opponents of the “New Deal” used […]

Guest AuthorDecember 29, 2013

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an unwarranted, unilateral, no-public-comment-allowed edict that will decrease payments for many interventional pain-medicine procedures. We expected some reductions due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A 4 to 7 percent cut was anticipated, but the greater than 50 percent decrease in reimbursement for cervical, lumbar and […]

Guest AuthorDecember 15, 2013

You have to admire the profile in courage that Florida Republicans are setting. Florida is standing up to all those whiny kids, pregnant women and disabled people and rejecting $51 billion in extra Medicaid funding over the next 10 years. “We don’t need no stinkin’ $5 billion a year for health care,” say the Republicans. […]

Daniel TilsonDecember 5, 2013

It’s time the tide turned on the wave of anti-Obama rhetoric that washed across America like a toxic red tide of disinformation and distrust in the wake of the problem-plagued rollout of Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges. There’s no need to be ignorant of or blind to the mistakes our president and his administration […]

Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2013

Some years from now, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, the Affordable Care Act will be a universally accepted part of our health-care system, and decent, affordable medical insurance for all citizens living in the richest country in the world will be woven into the American fabric. Most certainly, the law will not be the same as […]

Darryl PaulsonNovember 17, 2013

At his Nov. 14 news conference, President Obama proposed a “temporary fix” to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in an attempt to stop the growing public criticism of the president and to stop Democrats from jumping ship. “We fumbled the rollout on the health care law. . . If I fumble the ball, you know, […]

Guest AuthorNovember 10, 2013

When Rick Scott ran for governor in 2010, he campaigned primarily against President Obama, even though his Democratic opponent was actually Alex Sink. Using more than $70 million of his own money, the relatively unknown newcomer flooded homes daily with two or three colorful fliers that either bashed Obama or linked Sink to the president’s […]

Guest AuthorNovember 4, 2013

I recently attended a “town hall” event in Tampa sponsored by the Koch-brothers-funded “Americans for Prosperity.” After the presentations, I came to the conclusion that their organization should more aptly be called, “Americans for their own prosperity, and the hell with anyone else.” The first presenter was from the Foundation for Governmental Accountability, as well […]

Guest AuthorOctober 21, 2013

You certainly don’t need me to tell you how much damage the right-wing zealots in Washington who call themselves legislators have done to our country. This nation elected a president who, in his first term, signed into law a sweeping health-care plan that, among other things, provides medical insurance for millions of people who previously […]

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Marc Yacht: State needs expanded Medicaid and money that goes with it

Marc Yacht: Obamacare is alive and recovering

Rafael Miguel: Pain-treatment policy worsens prescription-drug abuse

Mark O’Brien: Florida is a Medicaid Santa — for other states

Daniel Tilson: It’s time for the latest anti-Obama tide to turn

Steve Robinson: Obamacare will survive, but bungled rollout will take toll

Darryl Paulson: The Obamacare mess keeps getting messier

Rick Outzen: Will Scott bash Obama to win re-election in 2014?

Gary Stein: Health-care event light on facts, heavy on rhetoric

Steve Robinson: We are in a dangerous new era of Know-Nothings