Comcast expands its low-cost internet to another three million households

Since 2011, Comcast's Internet Essentials program has connected more than eight million low-income individuals from two million households to the internet. Today, the company announced that it's bringing low-cost internet to an additional three milli...

Florida phishing attack exposes data for 30,000 Medicaid recipients

Large-scale medical hacks are horrible in themselves, but sometimes it's the ease of the hacks that's scary -- and Florida knows this first-hand. The state's Agency for Health Care Administration has warned that a phishing attack compromised data fo...

Republican Representatives Call For Food Stamp Purchase Transparency


In the current economy, food stamps have become a necessity for many U.S. citizens.The budget for food stamps, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has dramatically increased since...

Republican Jeb Bush to release 250,000 emails in e-book, may run in 2016 election


Jeb Bush announced on Florida’s WPLG of plans to released 250,000 emails from his time as former Florida Governor. Even though he’s younger than President G.W. Bush, his name has been floated around...

$1,000-a-Pill Sovaldi Shakes Medicaid


Medicaid is in somewhat of a fix. The extremely costly Sovaldi pill which comes for $1,000 is an anti-Hepatitis C drug. But the sheer cost prohibits its common use for the treatment of the poor....

Medicare: Why A Medicare Reformer Resigned?


One of the major figureheads responsible for transforming and virtually revolutionizing the Medicare system under the Obama administration has called it quits. Jonathan Blum is a Medicare director...