As prescription drug sales slow and competition rises, Walgreens is planning an overhaul of their stores to cut costs and change the way it fills prescriptions. Typically, drug stores are the last to feel the sting of economic down turns, but it seems that more Americans are trying to stretch their paychecks by skimping on [...]

McCain has attacked Obama’s proposed health care reform plans saying that they would be “run by the government.” In Obama’s defense, his plan would allow people several options including remaining on their current plan, seeking out a private plan, or aquiring a government sponsored plan. While the government would play a greater role in health [...]

After the fame of “Joe the Plumber,” which resounded among Americans as the epitome of the average American small business owner, both Presidential candidates have been focused on convincing America that they are the best choice for the economic future of our country. McCain capitalized on the Joe Plumber fame by touring Central Florida with [...]

While many are catagorizing the 2008 election as the US Youth Vote, there is still a powerful contengent of seniors, especially in Florida. Florida boasts the highest percentage of seniors of any state, and therefore candidates are focusing on issues of healthcare and retirement trying to capture the senior vote. The AARP has spent the [...]

Gov Jeb Bush managed to convince lawmakers that under his Medicaid Reform Plan, the state would have better management and that patients would have easier access to care. Heresay is that this is not the case, while two recent studies don’t show enough data to prove it one way or the other. And since three [...]

In Bradenton, FL, Manatee County Community College is among the many organizations in America looking for ways to cut costs in an increasingly difficult time. Also similar to many companies, the college is looking at ways to save money on health insurance for its employees. This is often one of the largest expenses for an [...]

Jacksonville, Florida — It likes like there are many new studies available offering the idea that urgent care centersoffer payers and health insurance (care) consumers significant savings for most basic medical care that sometimes takes place in many of the local Florida Emergency Rooms.  Jacksonville health insurance consumers could have saved $115 million in 2006.  That would have been the [...]

When Charlie Crist introduced the Cover Florida Plan, an effort at providing bare bones coverage for the overwhelming number of uninsured Floridians, he hoped that market competition would make the plan successful. However, when only two large companies, Blue Cross and United Healthcare stepped forward to bid on offering the plans, it seems as though [...]

Obama, in a campaign rally in Tampa, FL, addressed Floridians about the most important issues of the presidential race. While he attacked McCain’s tactics and insisted that the focus be on the issues that plague our country, he spent time highlighting the biggest problems which he planned to deal with. Florida, he asserted, has suffered [...]

The Commonwealth Fund recently conducted a survey which looked at equity, availability, cost and quality among the states in the area of children’s healthcare. The results did not look favorably on Florida which was ranked second lowest after Oklahoma. It seems that needy children are suffering due to fees that parents cannot afford, and that [...]