Health care

Florida will have more federal money to reimburse hospitals for care they provide uninsured patients. Politico Florida reports The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given the state a 60-day extension to spend about...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the medicare and medicaid programs that was passed by President Lyndon Johnson. It transformed health care coverage since its inception in 1965, at time when over half of senior...

Today we listen back on the latest Florida this Week, a political discussion show moderated by Radioactivity host Rob Lorei. On this episode we look at the rekindled ties between the US and Cuba, what’s...

Despite the growing demand for home healthcare as an alternative for the aging US population, home-care workers often struggle to making a living off their wages, which on the low end can be as little...

Tampa fast-food workers will travel to Mcdonald's HQ to protest working conditions

Young Invincibles group advocate for over 300,000 millennials in the healh care coverage gap

WEDU's Florida This Week looks at the battle over medicaid expansion, Amendment 1 funds, and same-sex adoption

King v. Burwell could push as many as 7.3 million Americans out of health insurance

Governor Scott wants feds to keep funds flowing for low-income heath care

In Tampa yesterday, industry workers spoke up and announced they are looking for union representation to aid them in the fight

Debt forgiveness for struggling countries, Nurse Practitioner autonomy, and education as civil rights on today's Radioactivity

Activists and local doctor discuss efforts to cover the 'healthcare gap' for thousands of Floridians.