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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 […]

Darryl PaulsonOctober 28, 2013

Second of two parts. Almost everyone, except the most hardened progressive ideologues, believes that the Obamacare rollout is a mess. After three years and $300 million spent on preparing the website, few people have been able to log on, let alone register for health care. The exact number who have successfully signed up for a […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2013

The central tenet of the Affordable Care Act — health insurance for almost all — kicked in at the same instant that the government shutdown began last week. It was one of those conjunctions of American history that bleed with irony, like the waning days of the Civil War when Jefferson Davis drafted slaves to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 2, 2013

Colin Powell was quoted as saying to President George W. Bush and company, “If you break it, you own it.” During the last session in Tallahassee, a common talking point from the Republicans was that “Medicaid is a broken system”, and that expanding it would be folly. Medicaid is by no means perfect, nor was […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 30, 2013

GOP government shutdown shenanigans aside, the launch of Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges this week shows that Florida is lurching along on the rocky road to health-care reform. It’s high time Floridians understood that the congressional melodrama in DC has little to do with actually blocking health reform and everything to do with conservative […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 15, 2013

It sounds bizarre, but it involves Florida and Arizona politics, so it’s par for the course. It is January 2013 and a group of Republican governors have all worked against unions, women’s rights, Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But most of all, especially after the Supreme Court ruled the ACA constitutional, they […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

Policy textbooks say that when considering alternatives, all equal, invest in the one that will have the greatest reach. But the political process has an appetite for eating good ideas, leaving just piecemeal chunks on the bone. No shock there, particularly for contentious issues. But what’s more confounding is when policies of uncontested merit fall […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

Here is a case where lawmakers got it right, and then, just as the measure is starting to work, a new law rips out its teeth. Kinda, literally. Florida’s Prepaid Dental Health Plan (PDHP) became operational in Miami-Dade County in 2009, and since that time, scores for annual dental visits by low-income children improved each […]

Bob SparksSeptember 9, 2013

For Baby Boomers, we are now seeing a clearer picture of the America we will leave behind in the not-too-distant future. It is a country of unimagined technical advances that provided most, but not all, of us with opportunities to advance as far as our capabilities and work ethic would lead. Scientific breakthroughs have eliminated […]

Peter SchorschMay 30, 2013

Once again, extremists in the Florida Legislature quietly are trying to sabotage the new federal health care law. Sadly, moves like this are becoming the norm in our state’s Capitol. Manipulating laws and rejecting much-needed federal funding is becoming the name of the game in Tallahassee. Most recently, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 1842, which is […]

Tag: Medicaid

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

Darryl Paulson: The problem with Obamacare: the substance

Pierre Tristam: The Medicare generation’s immoral war on Obamacare

Gary Stein: If Medicaid is broken in Florida, the state is responsible

Daniel Tilson: New ‘public option’ at heart of health reform: Pressure

Gary Stein: Is this how you run a business, Gov. Scott?

Karen Cyphers: What do Steve Southerland’s daughter’s friends have to do with Alzheimer’s funding?

Karen Cyphers: The case for keeping Medicaid’s dental carve-out

Bob Sparks: Only Democrats can lead on entitlement reform

Bill Nelson: Sabotage Afoot In Capitol