Keith Olbermann is ready to go to jail over it. Howard Dean is assaulting the White House over it. "It" is the individual mandate, the source of rare cross-ideological agreement in the health care debate. ...more

December 23, 2009

Florida CFO Alex Sink unveiled a new online help center for Florida's insurance consumers, allowing Floridians to submit their insurance questions and complaints electronically. ...more

December 21, 2009

Not long ago, it seemed a dead certainty that the only thing threatening Charlie Crist's march to a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2010 was a giant hurricane that left Florida taxpayers on the hook for a huge property-damage payout, thanks to the takeover of the insurance industry by the governor and his allies in the Legislature. As it turns out, other political ill winds are stirring. ...more

December 19, 2009

The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from sweeping health care legislation today in a bid to remove the largest remaining obstacle in the way of Christmas-week passage of the measure. ...more

December 14, 2009

A special service on Sunday will mark a momentous milestone in the life of Temple Terrace Presbyterian Church. ...more

December 9, 2009

Thanks to 220 courageous U.S. representatives who voted yes, we now have a chance for health care reform. ...more

November 17, 2009

Reform needed I was very disappointed that our representative, Ginny Brown-Waite, did not support the health reform legislation (HR 3962) that passed late Saturday night. ...more

November 13, 2009

My wife is retired, and I will be 66 years old. I favor health care reform with a public option to put pressure on the insurance industry. ...more

November 12, 2009

National health care has become the rule in every industrialized country in the world except for the richest one, the United States. This is a national disgrace that must end. Since the insurance industry has decided to place profitability before patient care, your help is necessary to end this morally reprehensible practice and once and for all guarantee Americans health insurance as a right. Many eyes are trained on Congress now and failing to carry out this popular mandate will surely jeopardize your personal chance for re-election. Do your duty and help protect the electorate which has allowed you the great privilege of service in Washington. Don't let yourself or your constituents down; you know what is right, and vote for health care reform. ...more

November 11, 2009

The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama today as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. ...more

November 8, 2009