Columns
Aug
1
2014
The Hill
The state is not doing its job to protect consumers from health insurance rate hikes. After passing up billions of dollars from the federal government for the state to expand Medicaid, Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature callously enacted a new law that, in essence, prevents the state’s...
May
25
2014
Daytona Beach News-Journal, Gainesville Sun
By now we have all heard the reports that some veterans have died needlessly because of long waits and delayed care at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country.
One such published report says mismanagement in Columbia, S.C., led the VA's inspector general to review practices there. And...
Apr
18
2014
Tampa Bay Times
Among our fellow Floridians, our neighbors, there are roughly 764,000 low-income people whose misfortune is compounded by the fact they are without health care coverage.
The meager amount of money they do earn makes them ineligible for both Medicaid, the federal government's health insurance program for...
Dec
16
2013
The Hill
Some Republican congressmen who supported the recent U.S. government shutdown got so burned that economists and corporate CEOs, their natural constituency, have been warning them:
The people don’t want that again.
Don’t you think this is why we were able to reach a bipartisan agreement on a budget deal...
Sep
19
2013
Sun Sentinel
The governor of Florida is making it abundantly clear he will stop at nothing to sabotage the new federal health care law. In doing so, he's putting at risk some of the very residents he was elected to serve.
Earlier this year, the governor decided to sign legislation that eliminated the Florida insurance...
Sep
19
2013
Tampa Bay Times, Sun Sentinel, Miami Herald
The governor of Florida is making it abundantly clear he will stop at nothing to sabotage the new federal health care law. And in so doing, he's putting at risk some of the very residents he was elected to serve.
Earlier this year, the governor decided to sign legislation that eliminated the Florida...
Sep
10
2013
U.S. News & World Report
Based on the evidence I have seen, there is no doubt that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime used chemical weapons and slaughtered innocent civilians, including 400 children. The question now facing America – and all civilized nations – is will we stand by and allow this dictator to use weapons of mass...
Aug
27
2013
Miami Herald
Fifty years ago Wednesday the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and shared his dream with the world.
As we pause to remember that iconic moment in our nation’s history, we should reflect on all the progress our country has made since the slain civil rights leader...
Jul
11
2013
The Hill
Want to place blame for the sequester and budget stalemate that is adversely affecting an untold number of Americans?
I think it’s the rigid, partisan ideology in Washington. The members of Congress have failed to put aside their political differences and find common sense solutions to our nation's most...
Jun
28
2013
The Hill
In striking down a central provision of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered a stake into the heart of a law that’s been used to guarantee fair elections in this country since the mid-1960s.
It’s now left up to a dysfunctional and highly partisan Congress to fix the law. And if I had my...