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Ryan RayJanuary 7, 2016

A pair of influential GOP legislators will file legislation to require health care providers to provide more upfront information about the cost and quality of their services, they said Thursday. Sen. Rob Bradley of Fleming Island and Rep. Chris Sprowls of Palm Harbor said in a joint statement their plan to file transparency bills was informed in part by […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 10, 2015

A good Corrine Brown press conference has a prop. The one she held on a misty Tuesday morning in Jacksonville, promoting a petition drive to get a referendum for Medicaid Expansion on the November 2016 ballot, had two. The first prop: Decked out in orange and blue, Congresswoman Brown wore a Gator-themed shawl, appropriate because […]

Jim RosicaOctober 15, 2015

House Democratic Leader Mark Pafford has been named the new chief executive officer of Florida CHAIN (Community Health Action Information Network), a statewide advocacy organization for health care consumers. The hire was announced in a Thursday press release. He starts Nov. 1. Because of term limits, the 49-year-old Pafford is serving his last term as a state […]

Jim RosicaOctober 14, 2015

House Democratic Leader Mark Pafford played the role of the not-so-loyal opposition Wednesday, floating ideas that are heretical to the controlling Republican caucus, including extending legislative term limits and prohibiting fundraising during committee weeks. “Boy, that would be charming,” he said with a grin. “That would change things.” Pafford, a Palm Beach County state representative, appeared before a group […]

Martin DyckmanAugust 31, 2015

How don’t we love Donald Trump? Let us count the ways. He is arrogant, artful, audacious, autocratic, avaricious, biased, bigoted, blustering, bombastic, bossy, a braggart, calculating, capricious, chauvinistic, coarse, conceited, cocky, crude, cunning, contriving, cynical, dangerous, deceitful, dislikable, duplicitous, dogmatic, dictatorial, dissentious, domineering, egotistical, erratic, evasive, feckless, haughty, high-handed, hypocritical, imperious, inconsistent, inflammatory, insatiable, insidious, […]

Marc YachtAugust 24, 2015

A recent Gallup Poll asked Americans what they thought to be the most pressing challenges facing the nation. The concerns were divided into economic and non-economic issues. It would behoove the current presidential aspirants to study the country through its citizens’ eyes rather than standard party politics. It’s clear the average Joe and Jane have […]

Guest AuthorAugust 20, 2015

If Donald Trump contributed anything to the political process during this presidential election, he has called the American voter to arms over our dysfunctional government. People are mad as hell about such things as: Lack of confidence in the economy and GDP; Unemployment, part-time jobs, and sending jobs overseas; Illegal immigration; Declining morality; Disrespect for […]

Guest AuthorAugust 18, 2015

By now the videos of Planned Parenthood executives casually discussing abortion outcomes over lunch have been broadly distributed and widely viewed. They have occasioned an appropriate and long overdue conversation on the nature of women’s health care, its availability and adequacy. Merely marketing oneself as a source of women’s health care is insufficient. Health care, […]

Marc YachtAugust 13, 2015

The infant mortality rate — defined as the death of an infant in the first year of life per 1,000 births — is a bellwether statistic. A nation’s quality of health care as well as the overall wellbeing of citizens can be deduced from this statistic. This rate has broad implications for any nation, state, […]

Mark FerruloJuly 28, 2015

Florida has the wrong leaders running our state with the wrong priorities, leaders such as Gov. Rick Scott and his allies in the Legislature who routinely ignore the needs of everyday Floridians. Bright spots, though, dot an otherwise dark sea of political pandering and corporate kowtowing. That’s why for the fifth consecutive year Progress Florida […]

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Golf ball and golf club in bag on green grass

Rob Bradley, Chris Sprowls to file health care cost transparency legislation

Corrine Brown urges Floridians to “soldier up” for health care expansion

Mark Pafford tapped to head health care group

Mark Pafford calls Tallahassee ‘corrosive,’ ‘corrupted’

Martin Dyckman: We’ve seen Donald Trump’s type before

Dr. Marc Yacht: It’s time that politicians listen

Tim Bryce: Has Howard Beale’s moment finally arrived?

Jeff Atwater: Planned Parenthood and the consequences of speech

Marc J. Yacht: U.S. infant mortality worst among 25 developed nations

Mark Ferrulo: Florida’s “Middle Class Champions” deserve our thanks