Category
Health care
Everyone wants to cut drug prices, so why isn’t that happening on Capitol Hill? Kaiser Health News reporter Jay Kaiser came on MidPoint for the first portion of the show and discussed why there are...
On today’s program, we spoke with Joanne McCall, president of the Florida Education Association, about a recent lawsuit the union filed against the state dept. of Education and its 67 school boards. The FEA is challenging...
Nelson and Castor press HHS on Children’s Medical Services
Two years ago the state of Florida removed 13,000 children with special needs from a specialized health care program called Children’s Medical Services. Thursday in a press conference at Tampa International Airport U.S. Senator Bill...
Women’s Show – Jessica Mason Pieklo on Women’s Health; Arnie Arnesen’s “Attitude”
Score one for the little people… all your protests and Indivisible groups demanding to be heard by your senators has paid off… We have beaten back the latest version of TrumpCare. Celebrate, but do not...
Is Uber’s Business Model Heading for Collapse?
The American Health Care Act stalls in the Senate The Republican Party’s long-promised repeal of “Obamacare” is in trouble after Senate GOP leaders, short of support, abruptly shelved a vote Tuesday on legislation aimed at...
MidPoint for Thursday, June 29 – Political analyst Chris Ingram
Chris Ingram, a former congressional aide and current political analyst for Bay News 9, joined us for the entire hour on Thursday. We talked a little about the current mayoral race in St. Petersburg and...
Tampa groups urge a “no” vote on Trumpcare
Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have delayed a vote on their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a “Trumpcare” bill that cuts Medicaid and reduces taxes; in a press conference...
Senate Healthcare Bill Threatens People with Disabilities
Senate Republicans are quietly moving forward with plans to pass a health care bill In the U.S. right now, the number of people without health insurance has been falling since the passing of Obamacare, but...
Are we having any fun yet? 146 days and counting….. How about a knock-knock joke to cheer you up? Knock-knock… Who’s there? The country. What do you want? To read the health care bill. No...
Callers react to speech by Bernie Sanders at People’s Summit
Over the weekend there was a lot of reaction online about the speech by Senator Bernie Sanders at the labor-sponsored People’s Summit in Chicago; we played most of Saturday’s speech on 88.5 FM’s MidPoint Monday...
Military Veterans Look at the Cost of War
Three Veterans Weigh in on War and Issues Faced by Service Members When They Come Home Memorial day is a day when we remember the sacrifices made by soldiers on behalf of our country. On...
The Misunderstood Affliction on Life Elsewhere
Julie Rehmeyer was so sick she sometimes couldn’t turn over in bed. The top specialists in the world were powerless to help, and scientific research on her disease was at a near standstill. She was...
