Florida made a number of difficult decisions recently to balance the state budget, and there are a lot of taxes involved. A number of budget cuts are threatening state jobs as well, as many as 800, however the new budget will offset this by creating 10,000 new jobs. Workers who earn over $45,000 yearly will [...]

A Federal tax increase of 40 cents for a big cigar, and $1 for a pack of small one may soon be compounded by a state tax increase if Florida decides to put it into effect. Swisher International Inc, a Jacksonville, FL based cigar manufacturer of more than 30 brands which employs roughly 1,300 people [...]

When it comes to deciding what treatment is appropriate and beneficial without being wastefully costly, who should make the call? Doctor’s insist that they are the patient’s advocate and are the experts on what treatment should be used and to what degree. Medicaid officials, however, feel that physicians cannot always be trusted and will try [...]

South Florida continues to be the hot bed of Medicare fraud as three more doctors were arrested over the past weekend in relation to millions of dollars in false claims involving obsolete HIV therapy. Physicians Carmen Lourdes del Cueto, 65; Roberto Rodriguez, 54; and Carlos Garrido, 69 are being held under accusations of submitting $10 million [...]