and our children's' lives - for generations. ...more

December 8, 2009

The state has spent about $2 million defending a class-action lawsuit that claims Florida is violating federal Medicaid requirements by providing inadequate medical and dental care to more than 1 million children. ...more

December 7, 2009

It is perhaps a mixed message or a contradiction for health care workers who willfully do something that is likely to endanger their health such as smoking. ...more

November 29, 2009

We received cards on our door this week requesting that we help Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman get on the ballot for the state Senate. ...more

November 26, 2009

Our representatives in Washington have a new idea on health care reform: national, government-run health insurance that is optional on a state-by-state basis. This idea, pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is effectively reviving the most controversial and wrongheaded idea in the current health care reform debate. ...more

November 17, 2009

The secretive group of oil interests intent on opening Florida's waters to drilling offers an alluring message: Drilling will produce jobs and money in a revenue-pinched state and poses no environmental threat. ...more

November 14, 2009

Every 12 minutes, another American dies from lack of health care. Tick, tick, tick... ...more

November 13, 2009

As Congress moves toward a historic decision on health reform, AARP has chosen sides: We are standing up for better health care for all Americans. ...more

November 12, 2009

As a nurse for 15 years, ...more

November 11, 2009

The story of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad nearing execution on Tuesday in Virginia for crimes he committed in October 2002 piqued my interest ("Beltway Sniper's execution looms," Nation and World, Nov. 10). The interest is in the vast and stark differences between Florida's and Virginia's death-row process. ...more

November 11, 2009