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Guest AuthorJune 2, 2014

Income inequality hovers over our economy like the mother ship from “Independence Day.” It affects millions of individual Americans and the nation as a whole. The problems are systemic, spread out in a web across a wide variety of industries, with interactions, causes and consequences. All you have to do is follow the threads to […]

Guest AuthorMay 4, 2014

There are 2,700 pages of the Affordable Care Act that can be condensed into one word:   Obamacare. To insure the uninsured, we first make some of the insured uninsured and then make them pay more to be insured again. In some cases, people have had to buy a policy they can’t afford despite the subsidies […]

Guest AuthorApril 13, 2014

While Jeb Bush goes through his methodical process of deciding whether to run for president, it has been interesting to read the pundits — most of whom don’t know him, and many who seem to have forgotten a few things. So, just sharing some random thoughts about what I’ve been reading: — It amazes me […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2014

It is well known that Florida has difficult challenges in delivering oral-health services to low-income children. Yet progress is being made. Florida’s prepaid “carved out” dental-health plans are able to maximize dollars received from the state and boost provider participation in their networks. They are directly accountable to the state government. This progress will be […]

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 […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

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 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. […]

Guest AuthorDecember 11, 2013

I commend Gov. Rick Scott for running the state as he would a business, taking every chance to maximize and return taxpayer dollars. Scott’s mission has been to make state programs most efficient by limiting waste and working to see dollars translate to jobs. But one policy change being proposed by the Agency for Health […]

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 […]

Tag: Medicaid

Gary Stein: When CEO earns 365 times more than workers, everyone gets hurt

John Grant: Obamacare is ineffective and needs to be repealed

Alan Levine: America needs the kind of leadership Jeb Bush can provide

Dr. Frank Catalanotto: State’s dental carve-out works, should be continued

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

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform

Marc Yacht: Obamacare is alive and recovering

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

Denise Rangel: For tax dollars and teeth, prepaid dental is the answer

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