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March 12, 1998
Waste-Case Scenario
While negotiating a $21 million contract with Broward County, Unisys swept a $100 million health-insurance mess right under the rug.
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August 13, 1998
Cutting the Healing
The emotional triage performed by therapists for the severely disabled is being eliminated by budget cutbacks
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May 12, 2005
Best Local Girl Gone Bad
Elizabeth Fago
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June 26, 2008
Chew It Up & Dance It Out
Two local benefits help raise funds for cancer victims
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April 6, 2006
What's a Little Medicare Fraud Between Friends?
Candidate Jim Waldman makes excuses for his ex-con buddy.
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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.
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October 14, 1999
A Handicapped Service
Complaints from the mobility-challenged against the AAA Wheelchair Wagon Service are numerous. The company's stance? What's the problem?
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June 18, 2009
New-Age Benefits
Complaints from the mobility-challenged against the AAA Wheelchair Wagon Service are numerous. The company's stance? What's the problem?
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August 20, 2009
Wagging the Dog at the Klein Forum
OK, so maybe it's not the most riveting video of this month's clashes between congressional Democrats and health care reform opponents, but this is a perfect illustration of the media echo chamber we've entered. Below, a woman shooting a video after yesterday's Ron Klein forum in Boynton Beach. ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
Obama Reacts to Ted Kennedy's Death
Flickr: diggz6873A few moments ago, President Barack Obama released this statement about the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy. For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to adva ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
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 >>
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December 3, 2009
Broward Teachers Ask Court to Stop Health Insurance Rate Hike
No more insurance hikes!In a last-ditch effort to prevent Broward school employees from paying thousands of dollars more for health insurance for their kids next year, the Broward Teachers Union this morning filed suit in Broward County Circuit Court to temporarily stop the 45 percent insurance r ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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November 3, 2010
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 >>
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December 2, 2010
Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?
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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 signsThey've disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about sociali ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Fake Rick Scott Versus Real Rick Scott: Both Jackasses?
Medicare fraud, schmedicare fraud!We've been spouting our concerns about our new governor, Rick Scott, since long before he was elected. The man was behind a giant Medicare fraud case. But it just goes to prove that even when you're scheming to bilk money from unsuspecting citizens, Floridians wi ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
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 >>
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February 21, 2011
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 >>
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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 >>
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March 24, 2011
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 >>
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May 1, 2011
Sen. Jim Waldman's Criminal Buddy Back In Hot Water
The amazing Hertz, left, partying with Sen. Waldman before he went to prisonFrom Medicare fraud to the foreclosure mess, Brad Hertz seems to bring trouble wherever he goes. After Hertz, a very close friend and business associate of Democratic state Sen. Jim Waldman, got out of federal prison ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 2)
Read the first installment of the Allen West interview here.New Times: Let's talk about the Ryan budget [introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)], which you supported in the House. [This proposal was passed by the House and at presstime was awaiting a vote in the Senate, although House leader ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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July 15, 2011
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 >>
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August 15, 2011
Ex-Health Insurance Executive: Rick Scott HMO Debacle Goes Against His "Obamacare" Rhetoric
Illustration by Miche RattoWendell 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 >>
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September 14, 2011
Ron Paul Says Uninsured Shouldn't Be Left for Dead; Tea Party Audience Disagrees (Video)
Texas Rep. Ron PaulIn 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 >>
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September 15, 2011
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 >>
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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 >>
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December 20, 2011
Democrats, in General, Win PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2011
The thought that Rep. Paul Ryan and Republicans wanted to "end Medicare" is now as legitimate as using the phrase "death panels" or "government takeover" when referring to Obamacare, thanks to Democrats winning PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year."The "end Medicare" idea apparently started with Rep ... More >>

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