health care

Health care could be a key issue during the 2024 Florida Legislative session; House Select Committee on Health Innovation is created.

Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein – We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on...

Listen: Prescription drug shortages reached a five-year peak at the end of last year. Now, a Tampa congress member joined medical professionals at a local hospital Thursday to call for change. Congress member Kathy Castor...

About 900,000 Floridians are at risk of losing their health insurance through Medicaid. Here are their options.

The Florida House passed a bill that would allow trained certified nursing assistants to provide medications to nursing home residents.

Listen: A bill that advanced today in the state Senate would make more of Florida’s children eligible for affordable healthcare. The bill, sponsored by Republican senator Alexis Calatayud, increases the income eligibility threshold for coverage...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is requiring universities to provide information about services they have provided to transgender people.

FREE, UNBIASED help from trained Medicare counselors is available from SHINE Medicare to help seniors choose their Medicare health care coverage for 2023. Appointments with SHINE counselors can be made at 800-963-5337.

Three healthcare groups challenged the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration about direct care workers getting a minimum of $15/hour.

On October 29th, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Dental clinic is doing free dental treatments for children 6 to 17 years old.

Depression and anxiety seem to be a prevailing mood among the masses, and the clinical diagnosis and treatment of such mental illnesses still leave much to be desired. Adverse side effects from prescription medication and...

The Pasco school district’s health policy is about $11 million in debt because of COVID-related claims by unvaccinated employees.