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Former Florida football player convicted of $20 million healthcare fraud conspiracy By Jay Weaver jweaver@miamiherald.com February 05, 2018 03:26 PM Updated 50 minutes ago Monty Grow, a former University of Florida and NFL player who made a small fortune selling pharmaceutical drugs, took the unusual step of testifying in his trial on charges of swindling millions from a federal program that provides medical insurance for the U.S. military. The 46-year-old Grow was hit again and again with questions by a federal prosecutor about receiving and paying kickbacks to score lucrative patient referrals for a major South Florida pharmacy. “You were...

The hustle is on to insure Chicagoans Community groups are scrambling to figure out how to connect Chicagoans with health insurance in the wake of the Trump administration no longer funding outreach efforts in 18 cities, including Chicago. The federal money was used to help enroll people into plans sold on the Obamacare public health insurance exchanges, and to usher the uninsured into the expanded Medicaid program in Illinois. Combined with consumer confusion over

If you are not sure what is in the healthcare bill, just ask Wall Street. Following news that the Senate had passed its 2700 page health bill, insurance industry stocks shot up. By 11AM the morning after Harry Reid’s middle of the night vote, the big board showed United Health up 4.31%, Aetna up 5.63% CIGNA up 5.89%, Humana up 4.00%, WellPoint up 3.79%, and Coventry Health up 3.91%. (Information taken from www.fivethirtyeight.com)

THAT'S it? For the past six months, six members of the Senate Finance Committee, led by Chairman Max Baucus, have been laboring mightily to design a health-care bill. Yesterday they finally brought forth their product -- and it leaves us with more questions than answers. Despite months of work, Baucus hasn't really produced a bill yet, only a 223-page summary of what he hopes a bill will contain. Here is some of what we know and don't know: First, he claims the bill would cost only $856 billion. (Remember when that sounded like a lot of money?) In fact, that...

If the Republican Party proves itself to be ineffectual in these critical times, it needs new leaders. We need representatives who hold conservative values and who look out for our vital interests. We need leaders, not political hacks. We need men and women with the courage of their convictions. We don’t need invertebrates. We need leaders who look up at the flag for inspiration, not to see which way the wind is blowing.