I read the letters where the Constitution is used to make ones personal point, bent to fit their views. It is a good document in which our government should be run, but too many years have passed for it to now be absolute. If we want to go back to that time in history then we must remember that many of the writers owned slaves. There were indebted persons and a poor house in which to be jailed. Women of the time were only good to have children and keep the house. The writers could not have foreseen all the advances that have been made in our country; if they could some of the text might have been written differently. ...more

November 1, 2009

Governor Charlie Crist has announced the initial results of the first two months of enrollment in Cover Florida Health Care plans. ...more

April 4, 2009

A new report shows Florida ranks third in the nation in the number of people losing their health coverage. ...more

March 7, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday that more people need to take advantage of the Cover Florida health care access plan that provides low-cost coverage for Floridians who don't have insurance. ...more

March 6, 2009

Three days a week, Philip Audette sat in a cushy white chair at the St. Jude Rehab Center, a needle pumping HIV drugs into his arm. He talked and laughed with a dozen other patients, all in good health, all receiving drugs they didn't need. All for the money. ...more

December 24, 2008

AP Chamber To Meet AVON PARK The Avon Park Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly membership meeting at 7 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Hotel Jacaranda. ...more

December 14, 2008

Unos 3.8 millones de floridanos que carecen de seguro médico podrán empezar a solicitar, a partir del 5 de enero próximo, cobertura de salud a bajo costo mediante un nuevo programa estatal. ...more

December 11, 2008

BUSINESS NOTES HOSPITAL PLANS HIGH-TECH UNITS: Several high-tech medical units are under construction and set to open soon at Brandon Regional Hospital. Chief Executive Officer Mike Fencel said a 40-bed Neuroscience Center will be ready to serve patients by the end of this year. People with brain and spinal tumors, epilepsy and spinal disorders will be treated in the fourth-floor unit. In early 2009, noninvasive cancer treatments will be offered in the hospital's CyberKnife Cancer Center, currently under construction. Work on the new BrainLab, where neurosurgeons will perform high-tech brain surgery using state-of-the-art equipment, also is under way. Among those staffing the new neurosurgical unit will be Phillip Henkin, former director of the Spine and Brain Institute at St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville, who recently was hired at Brandon Regional. ...more

October 8, 2008

Have you seen them? They used to be among us. They used to be in your neighborhoods. ...more

September 17, 2008

A faith-based health clinic is preparing to open a free dental office for the uninsured "working poor," according to its executive director. ...more

August 28, 2008