A new report released today by Amnesty International has found that Florida is 41st among all states in maternal mortality ranking, with 13.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. Moreover, one in six women (16.1 percent) receives delayed or no prenatal care. The number rises to one in five women (21.2 percent) among women of color.
In his remarks on health insurance reform in St. Charles, Missouri, President Obama announced today a new effort to to crack down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs through the expanded use of payment recapture audits.
Congressman Alan Grayson, (D-Orlando), today introduced a bill (H.R. 4789) which would give the option to buy into Medicare to every citizen of the United States.
On April 15, President Barack Obama will visit Florida to host a White House Conference on the Administration’s new vision for America’s future in space, the White House said. The Conference comes against the backdrop of thousands of anticipated job loses owing to the shuttering of NASA’s Constellation program.
The unemployment rate remained constant at 9.7 percent, as payroll employment declined slightly more than January, suggesting that there was some negative impact from the snowstorms on the Eastern seaboard. The Labor Department said that 36,000 jobs were lost last month as compared with 26,000 in January.
There are reports that former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, showed up at the Oscar Gift Suite in West Hollywood on Wednesday, with an entourage of 20 in tow, and it seems raided the suite of facial products, sweat shirts, jewelry and other items.
A report released today has concluded that the U.S. needs to develop a comprehensive strategy capable of meeting the increased demands of a growing clean energy economy, while ensuring that federal clean energy investments create quality, high-paying jobs in the United States. Failure to do so, will see continued indirect subsidization of growth of those activities in low-wage countries such as China
Earlier today, President Obama threw down the gauntlet to Republicans, saying that “the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform.” Noting that the issue has been debated thoroughly, not only in the past year, but for decades, Obama, said that health reform had already passed the House with a majority and the Senate with a supermajority of 60 votes.
Representative Charles Rangel, Harlem Democrat, in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi this morning asked for a leave of absence as Chairman of the powerful U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.
Today, President Obama wrote to Congressional leaders on moving forward with health insurance reform, underscoring those areas of agreement between Democrats and Republicans, while pointing out where there are diverging views.
