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Health Care Issues

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Legalize It! Top Five Diggity-Dank Tributes to Peter Tosh's Ultimate Weed Anthem

    ​This Sunday, Revolution Live and Ploppy Palace Productions are hosting the 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit. The multimedia extravaganza lasts all day and features loads of 420-friendly jams (from the likes of Grammy winner Cyril Nevile, Johnny Drea, the Spam Allstars, the Funky Nuggets, and ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Pot Smuggler Schools Seniors on Medical Marijuana

    ​This Sunday, Revolution Live and Ploppy Palace Productions are hosting the 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit. The multimedia extravaganza lasts all day and features loads of 420-friendly jams (from the likes of Grammy winner Cyril Nevile, Johnny Drea, the Spam Allstars, the Funky Nuggets, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Resolution Now in Both Chambers of Florida Legislature

    ​​​Resolutions to let voters decide on an amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana have now been proposed in both chambers of the Legislature.Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard dropped Senate Joint Resolution 1028 in the hopper on Friday, becoming the Senate side ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Rick Scott Predicts "Obamacare" Will Be a Loser in the Supreme Court -- Is He Right?

    Illustration by Miche RattoWho needs Husseinobamacare?​Yesterday, Gov. Rick Scott made a visit to the Palm Beach Post editorial board and predicted that the challenge of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act raised by Florida and 25 other states would win in the U.S. Supreme Court.Argumen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Florida Medical Marijuana Referendum Petition a Bit Low on Signatures: 646,889 More Needed

    sodahead.com​If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to si ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed Represents a Strange About-Face on Medical Marijuana

    sodahead.com​If you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Resolution Filed in Florida House to Let Voters Decide the Need for Weed

    sodahead.comNot quite yet.​An amendment to the Florida Constitution to legalize medical marijuana may be proposed on 2012 voter ballots, if one House Democrat gets his way.Rep. Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth has submitted House Joint Resolution 353, which would put a medical-marijuana amendment up to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Have Smoking Bans Help Convert Us into a Nation of Foodniks?

    ​"Do you have a light?" Don Draper asks the waiter in the opening scene of the Mad Men pilot when he's interrupted from writing ideas on a cocktail napkin. The waiter pulls out his lighter marked with his cigarette brand. "Old Gold, huh?" Draper says as he takes a drag. "Lucky Strike here."Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Florida Ranks Very High in Economic Study; Unfortunately, It's About People Being Poor

    ​A study from the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy says Florida ranks third, fourth, and fifth out of the 50 states in three different economic indicators.Unfortunately, those indicators are the highest rates of residents without health insurance, the largest percentage of children un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Ex-Health Insurance Executive: Rick Scott HMO Debacle Goes Against His "Obamacare" Rhetoric

    Illustration by Miche Ratto​Wendell Potter -- a former health care insurance executive who most recently left his post as head of communications for CIGNA -- has been following up on the Pulp's post on Florida's newest HMO policy for state employees and agrees that the decision to allow just one H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    South Florida Tea Party Back to Fax-Bombs, Now Asking John McCain Not to "Piss" on Them

    Hey there, Tea Party -- 50 percent chance of rain!​In its second fax-bomb attempt in a matter of weeks, the South Florida Tea Party is asking its supporters to send a prewritten fax to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, requesting that the Maverick not urinate on them.They're apparently not too happy wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Palm Beach County Tea Party Director Quits After Chairman Rags on Rep. Paul Ryan

    ​Standing up for what you believe in apparently isn't in the South Florida Tea Party manifest.Pam Wohlschlegel -- the director of the Palm Beach County chapter of the South Florida Tea Party -- called it quits after Chairman Everett Wilkinson declared House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Allen West Stumped for Losing Candidate in Tight New York House Race

    Allen West supported the Medicare plan that's now under fire.​Yesterday, Democrat Kathy Hochul won a closely watched special congressional election in a heavily Republican district in western New York. Why should Sunshine State voters care? Democrats are spinning Hochul's upset victory as evidence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Charged With Growing Pot, Man Claims Medicinal Marijuana Defense -- and Wins

    Jeffrey Kennedy, with his wife, Sharon, says they've gone through "18 months of hell" since his arrest.​Prosecutors dropped criminal charges today against a Palm Beach County man who had claimed a medicinal marijuana defense in a case that could have sent him to prison for five years for growing p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Universal Health Care: The Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time

    The Republican Party tries to pretend it has a monopoly on morality, but it's so drenched in sin right now that it ought to be able to feel the hellfire licking its feet. Fort Lauderdale Tea Party leader Gabriel Carrera plays dress-up as a minuteman.​The rotten Tea Party has in its hysteri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    High Support For Medical Marijauna Doesn't Matter to an Anti-Weed Columnist

    ​Let's clear a few things up just in case anyone was misled by a column from the Sun Sentinel's Nicole Brochu earlier this week. Despite a recent survey that found 57 percent of Floridians support legalization of medical marijuana, Brochu doesn't think that it's likely to happen. "Florida isn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Republican Pollster: 57 Percent of Floridians Support Legalizing Medicinal Pot

    A survey conducted by GOP pollster Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates -- the same firm that conducted polls for Florida Gov. Rick Scott's campaign -- found that 57 percent of Floridians support legalization of medicinal marijuana. Daily BruinSoon coming to a strip mall near you? ​This news ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    Sunday Politics: Q&A With Tea Partier on Health Care

    The Tea Party has demonized health-care reform -- or Obamacare, as it calls it -- to the point that the group seems to believe that it alone is going to destroy America. Tea Party signs​They've disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about sociali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Rick Scott's Plan: Blame the Unemployed, Cut Drug Oversight, and Other Goodies

    ​You can't say the guy's not trying. Florida's favorite baldheaded former fraudster, Governor-elect Rick Scott, has been tossing off bits of a new economic plan. Not surprisingly, most of his talking points involve limiting government involvement and letting us little guys pull like mad on our boo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Tea Party Lawyer Marianne Moran Campaigns for Power to Repeal Federal Laws

    Moran at a Tea Party protest against Charlie Crist's U.S. Sugar "bailout."​Marianne Moran is a lawyer in West Palm Beach and a member of Tea Party in Action and Balance Our Budget Now. Through her work on the Florida Senate, she met Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor who is credited with de ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Moran at a Tea Party protest against Charlie Crist's U.S. Sugar "bailout."​Marianne Moran is a lawyer in West Palm Beach and a member of Tea Party in Action and Balance Our Budget Now. Through her work on the Florida Senate, she met Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor who is credited with de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    'Obamacare' Headline Reveals that People Do Read the Newspaper and Care What It Says

    via hubpages.com​Proof that journalism, even newspaper journalism, still matters: This Miami Herald article about readers' complaints that the word 'Obamacare' is a "pejorative" with partisan connotations. The Miami Herald changed the recent headline, "Obamacare arrives Thursday," to "Obama-led he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Attorney General Candidate Jim Lewis: Legalize Weed to Save Florida's Economy

    Photo from jimlewisforflorida.comLewis: "Faint heart never won fair maiden."​Jim Lewis won't be your next attorney general. But if there were some miraculous come-from-behind victory for the perennial losing candidate, Lewis would bring about a radical change. He'd legalize pot. Not just medicinal ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Famous Tokers

    From an Olympic champion to an honest-to-goodness queen, everybody has smoked pot.

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Reefer Revolution

    Here's ground zero in the battle to decriminalize pot.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Former Executive Blew Whistle on E-Cigarette Maker From Weston Now Being Investigated by AG

    FlickrE-cigarettes are in the strange position of suing to prove they're a tobacco product.​A Weston-based company called Smoking Everywhere wanted an executive who could go to battle against the FDA and U.S. Customs, which had teamed up to ban the import of e-cigarettes. But by hiring Ray Story i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Just What the Doctor Ordered

    FlickrE-cigarettes are in the strange position of suing to prove they're a tobacco product.​A Weston-based company called Smoking Everywhere wanted an executive who could go to battle against the FDA and U.S. Customs, which had teamed up to ban the import of e-cigarettes. But by hiring Ray Story i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    The American Medical Association Wants to Tax Your Pizza

    ​This, according to a post today on Worstpizza.com.The AMA recently published an article that calls for a "fat tax" to be levied on pizza, soda, and other supposed junk foods. The flat 18 percent tax would, according to the article, deter people from eating high-calorie, low-nutrition foods like p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    George LeMieux Talking Points Get Mangled on Cable News Show

    Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn't been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress, but it's been p ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Get Up, Stand Up

    Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn't been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress, but it's been p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Crist Walks Into Democrat-Laid Health-Care Trap

    ​Everybody's still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let's pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist's opinion of a Senate Democrat health care reform package that woul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    Nature's Way

    ​Everybody's still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let's pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist's opinion of a Senate Democrat health care reform package that woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Ohmygod Grandma Do Not Rap When the NY Times Reporter Is Around!

    nytimes.comArtificial hip-hop and health care hysteria: all the rage at Sunrise Lakes​They've still working do on destroying Obama's health care plan but in the opening moments of this New York Times video,  Sunrise seniors dealt a death blow to hip-hop. Chilling video here.The accompanying a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Hospital District: Why Wrestle a White Elephant When You Can Tackle a Red Herring?

    Flickr User: FrogMillerMidway through this morning's meeting of the North Broward Hospital District's board, Commissioner Robert Bernstein decided it was time to acknowledge the "white elephant in the room."A tantalizing prospect, because this room was positively teeming with white elephants. There ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Cigarette Smokers Burned By New Tax; Cigar Aficionados Blow Celebratory Rings

    flickr.com While cigarette smokers will now pay a dollar per pack more, the legislature gave the cigar industry a break. A new state-wide dollar-per-pack tax on cigarettes and smokeless and pipe tobacco starts today. The stated goal from the legislature is to encourage smokers to stop. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Wasserman Schultz Beats Breast Cancer

    C. StilesWasserman SchultzAround this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Is Big Tobacco Using Healthy Start to Do Its Dirty Work?

    Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget.  Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has propo ... More >>

  • News

    January 22, 2009

    Keep Camels Off Sand

    Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget.  Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has propo ... More >>

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Letters for September 13-19, 2007

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • Dining

    February 28, 2002

    Pick Your Battles

    There are all kinds of reasons not to eat hearty pub fare at Trafalgar Tavern. Ignore them.

  • Dining

    August 16, 2001

    Foodstuff

    No smoking

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Let Me Kill Myself

    Before he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease, Phil Snaith wants to accomplish one final goal: force the state to allow assisted suicides

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    No Exit

    In South Florida the new killing fields are filled with sick, depressed senior citizens who make self-inflicted death their final ally

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Disloyalty Is Job One

    Bob Horvath was the ultimate company man for GM and sold their cars for 40 years. The thanks he got? The auto giant put him out of business.

  • News

    August 13, 1998

    Cutting the Healing

    The emotional triage performed by therapists for the severely disabled is being eliminated by budget cutbacks

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Infuriating the Joint

    A public seminar on the evils of marijuana. An activist claiming pot saved his life. Someone was arrested.

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