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Daniel TilsonMay 10, 2015

I want to serve on Gov. Rick Scott’s Commission on Hospital and Healthcare Funding. I mean, poetic justice aside, I’m uniquely qualified to help the cause. Not the governor’s cause, not the crusade to turn Florida’s healthcare system into a hardcore conservative model for what could replace the Affordable Care Act after he’s helped elect […]

Christine Jordan SextonApril 29, 2015

As the dysfunctional 2015 regular legislative session continued on Wednesday with the Florida Senate threatening to sue the House for its abrupt sine die, Gov. Rick Scott floated to the media details about the hospital and health care commission he plans on convening. Scott released a draft outline of the commission that shows he plans […]

Mitch PerryApril 21, 2015

President Barack Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders of both parties at the White House Tuesday to cheer on a recently passed bill that makes reforms to Medicare. The bill eliminated Congress’s two-decade-old Medicare payment problems known as the “doc fix,” and has been hailed as a rare form of bipartisanship in Washington. “If this bill had […]

Associated PressApril 15, 2015

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio launched his Republican presidential campaign this week with a promise to reject “the leaders and ideas of the past.” It was a not-so-subtle jab from a 43-year-old fresh-faced senator at his likely 2016 competitors, Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Hillary Clinton, whose families cemented political dynasties in the 1990s. A closer […]

Mitch PerryMarch 26, 2015

I wrote several stories regarding polls in Florida on Wednesday, and in one of those stories I wrote briefly about Marco Rubio‘s plan to replace Obamacare. As we all know, the GOP has been castigated for being nattering nabobs of negativism (to trot out that golden oldie written by Pat Buchanan and uttered by Spiro […]

Mitch PerryMarch 26, 2015

I wrote several stories regarding polls in Florida on Wednesday, and in one of those stories I wrote briefly about Marco Rubio‘s plan to replace Obamacare. As we all know, the GOP has been castigated for being nattering nabobs of negativism (to trot out that golden oldie written by Pat Buchanan and uttered by Spiro […]

Marc YachtFebruary 24, 2015

When those who make it rain suddenly give out umbrellas, we can only shake our head and look skyward. The Republicans have decided to take on income disparities. Jeb Bush, a GOP presidential hopeful railed about income equality. “The opportunity gap is the defining issue of our time….” Of course as expected, President Barack Obama received the […]

Marc YachtFebruary 2, 2015

When King Arthur is about to marry Guinevere, the song notes, “I wonder what the king is doing tonight.” A good question to those who built their house of cards selling the “Big Government is Bad” idea. This effective anti-government campaign plays on fears that those awful tax-and-spend liberals will reach deeper into voters’ pockets. […]

Marc YachtJanuary 13, 2015

A Vermont protest during the inauguration of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin received little media attention. The Vermont Worker’s Center sit-in resulted in 29 protester arrests. They took issue with Shumlin shelving his campaign promise to pursue single-payer health care for Vermont. The VW Center advocates health care as a right. Although the Affordable Care Act […]

Guest AuthorNovember 16, 2014

The midterm elections are in the rearview mirror, but Congress still has a lot of important work to take care of before defeated or retired lawmakers go home at year’s end and the newly elected ones take office in January. At the top of the “lame duck” to-do list should be addressing an urgent and […]

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Daniel Tilson: I want to be on Rick Scott's new healthcare commission

Rick Scott releases plan to examine hospitals’, insurance companies’ profits

Kathy Castor, Tampa health officials hail “doc fix” Medicare bill

Marco Rubio draws from past despite future focus

Mitch Perry Report for 3.26.15 — How viable is Rubio’s plan to replace the ACA?

Mitch Perry Report for 3.26.15 — How viable is Rubio's plan to replace the ACA?

Marc Yacht: Is the GOP having a wage fairness epiphany?

Marc Yacht: I wonder what Republicans are doing tonight

Marc Yacht: Vermont protesters right to back single-payer health care

Sal Nuzzo: Time for truth in Medicare accounting