Medicaid

DeGroot: Alan Levine Will Be New NBHD Chief

Joel Steinger and Mutual Benefits Corp. Stole a Billion Dollars by Peddling Bogus Life Insurance Policies

Cutting the Healing

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

Letters

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

The Dentist Is Out

The closure of a publicly funded children's dental clinic has low-income patients down in the mouth

A Long Yard

It could happen here. Replace the guv with a movie star.

Hospital Index

Want to play free golf and stay at the finest hotels in the country?

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Elizabeth Fago

Bitter Pill

Families say Hollywood doc is out of control

Schoolkids, State Workers: You're All Under the Bus for Tax-Shy Legislature

Our Florida legislators have some budget-cutting to do, but they also need to improve the state's education system, which is fast becoming a national embarrassment. This will take some creativity. Republicans, as the majority party, you're up.flhouse.govAdam HasnerAdam Hasner, Republican from Delray ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale "Tea Party" Protest on Tax Day

Tania GailBesides gnashing one's teeth or making fun of Timothy Geithner's dweebiness, there is little frustrated taxpayers can do about the spiraling-out-of-control federal deficit. To channel their rage, fed-up conservatives have been organizing "tea parties" around the country, mimicking the Bost ... More >>

House Owned By Tally Power Players Under Homestead Investigation

Arduin and Ericks with Jeb BushOne of the GOP's top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption.   The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned ... More >>

Letters for November 15-21, 2007

Arduin and Ericks with Jeb BushOne of the GOP's top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption.   The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned ... More >>

Letters for 8-14, 2007

Arduin and Ericks with Jeb BushOne of the GOP's top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption.   The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned ... More >>

Burned at Both Ends

A background in hauling pot gives you the skills and chutzpah to become a Medicaid mogul

Teabag Gags And Other Important Democratic Functions

All this talk on the news about the right-wing "teabagging" protests is cracking me up. In fact I'm starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up w ... More >>

Head Pounding

All this talk on the news about the right-wing "teabagging" protests is cracking me up. In fact I'm starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up w ... More >>

All the Governor's Men

A sweetheart hospital district deal could land Jeb Bush in front of a grand jury

Miracle Baby

Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

A Handicapped Service

Complaints from the mobility-challenged against the AAA Wheelchair Wagon Service are numerous. The company's stance? What's the problem?

Burning Down the House

After the closing of an apartment building for AIDS victims in Fort Lauderdale, the city's ability to oversee a multimillion-dollar, federally funded program is called into question

Tea Party Team Fights Obama, MoveOn on Health Care

RBerteigIf the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide "tea parties" have become emboldened by the turnouts they've drawn. Now they are fighting Obama's plan to move toward nationalized health care. If th ... More >>

Jury Still Out on Jimenez Case

A verdict is expected this week in the civil suit against Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart for flying an illegal immigrant patient out of the country in 2003 after he had accumulated some $1.5 million in medical bills that were unlikely to be paid. Luis Jimenez, who is Guatemalan, was workin ... More >>

LeMieux's First Bill: Health-Care Fraud Prevention (in Lieu of Health-Care Coverage?)

We can all agree with what Florida's new senator, George LeMieux, says above, that this health-care fraud thing should stop. And he makes it sound so easy!But if you watch the longer version of that speech above, you'll see that LeMieux's debut piece of legislation is part of a larger, grander Repu ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big heart. But not this big.

Whistleblowers Like This One Needed to Clean Up South Florida Health-Care Industry

Flickr: Cine FanaticoAs Matt Damon proves, executive informants are glamorous! (The mustache is encouraged but not required.)​South Florida is arguably the health-care fraud capital of the U.S. There's so much fraud, it's hard to blame the crook who reasons that stealing merely a million dollars w ... More >>

Rick Scott Appears to Clinch Governor's Race, Gets Green Light to Abuse State (Updated)

​If your ex-con boyfriend slaps you around when you ask why he emptied out your bank account and then you take him back, everyone knows you've given him permission to rob and hurt you again. That's the message voters gave Republican Rick Scott yesterday when they elected a man to the governor's ma ... More >>

Head of Florida Dems Thanks Supporters for "Brighter Future"?

Where were the Dems while this guy won?​Yes, a wave of anti-Obama, pro-Tea Party sentiment swept the country Tuesday. But even considering the national trend, Florida Dems took a beating that can't simply be blamed on the miserable economy or a knee-jerk desire for change.Going into Election Day, ... More >>

Rick Scott Wants Ideas, So How About Legalized Weed in the New State of South Florida?

"I need your ideas," says Rick Scott, the governor-elect of Florida, in this new YouTube video posted November 17. "We gotta make this the model state. We gotta make this the state that we're the most effective, the best state to do business, the best state for all Floridians. And that's what I'm ... More >>

Mexican Macro-Economics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

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 >>

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 >>

Ilene Lieberman Is Back in the Building!

Lieberman is second from left ​Ilene Lieberman, after months of no-shows and call-ins to Broward County Commission meetings, has finally returned to public service. She's on the dais now -- after fellow Commissioner Chip LaMarca made it an issue last week and m ... More >>

While Enabling Pain Clinics, Rick Scott's Team Proposes Eliminating Funding for Real Clinics

​While it may be exaggeration to say he wants Florida's "pill mills" to stay open, Rick Scott has smacked down a whole bunch of rules that would regulate and monitor their activity. First he announced a freeze on new rules that would help the state crack down on fly-by-night clinics, then he disba ... More >>

Rick Scott, Former CEO of Fraud Hospital Chain, Considers Privitizing FL Hospitals

Rick Scott, your governor.​When Rick Scott starts considering hospital privatization, it's worth revisiting his past. The Sun-Sentinel reported that Scott established a commission to investigate whether the state could trim a layer of budgetary fat by selling  government-run hospitals to priv ... More >>

Miami Pill Mill Doctor Busted By FBI

​In the second South Florida pill mill bust this week, federal prosecutors charged 57-year-old Dr. Selwyn Carrington, of Miami, with illegally distributing massive amounts of narcotic pills through two different pain clinics. The feds nabbed Carrington on Friday, just one day after local authoriti ... More >>

Lawmakers Seek to Limit Liability for Foster Care Tragedies, to Protests from Parents

Illustration by Jordin Isip​Sometimes, when you adopt a kid, things go well. Sometimes, they go wrong. And sometimes, they go so horribly, unimaginably wrong that your life becomes an unending battle to hide the wrongness from yourself, to use every available device of legislation, money, and geog ... More >>

Florida House: No Public Money For Abortions. Farewell, Low Crime Rate!

​Today, two stories appeared in Floridian media outlets that didn't seem to have much to do with each other, but did.The first: "Florida's Crime Rate The Lowest In 40 Years." The title is a bit misleading -- Florida didn't begin tracking crime rates until 40 years ago, so our historic streak of la ... More >>

Gov. Rick Scott Invents A Scientific Study On Drug Use During Nationally Televised Interview

​Now for Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day -- making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get their cash.On ... More >>

A Tour of Gov. Rick Scott's Dirtiest Deeds

​Now for Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day -- making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get their cash.On ... More >>

Rick Scott Talks About Selling Soda, Muses Nonsensically on the Role of Government

​Rick Scott held a news conference today at the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association in which said organization presented him with a model of the ship he served on from 1972-74.According to the Herald's Naked Politics blog, Scott waxed nostalgic about supplementing his government paycheck ... More >>

Allen West on NPR: Do We Really Need the Justice Department?

How important is the Justice Department, really?​Yesterday, NPR host Robert Siegel interviewed U.S. Rep. Allen West about the federal debt fight. West, a member of the House Tea Party caucus, is adamantly opposed to raising the debt limit. He doesn't want the U.S. government to borrow any more mon ... More >>

Ron Paul Says Uninsured Shouldn't Be Left for Dead; Tea Party Audience Disagrees (Video)

Texas Rep. Ron Paul​In our poll yesterday, around 42 percent of our readers thought that the Tea Party audience made the most outlandish comment at Monday night's CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate.Texas Rep. Ron Paul was asked a hypothetical question during the debate by moderator Wolf Blitz ... More >>

How to Fake Your Own Death, Courtesy of Former Pot Runner John Darrell Boyd

Courtesy of John Darrell BoydBoyd in his heyday.​A promo shows a young bearded guy pulling up to the edge of the Everglades and shooting the windows of his station wagon -- from the inside."He wants the crime scene to convince investigators that he was killed in a hail of bullets," says the voice- ... More >>

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 >>

OCCUPIED Amendment From Ted Deutch "Totally Bans Corporate Money" in Campaigns

maryannaville.com​It looks like all those hippies hanging out in parks may have actually sparked an idea.Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch -- who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties -- introduced the "Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democr ... More >>

South Florida's Dirty Dozen: Our Annual List of Our Worst

maryannaville.com​It looks like all those hippies hanging out in parks may have actually sparked an idea.Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch -- who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties -- introduced the "Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democr ... More >>