Florida's unemployment hit 12.2 percent in February, the highest rate on record, soaring past even the rates recorded in the 1973-1975 recession.

February's rate rose a 0.2 percentage point from the January revised rate of 12 percent. More than 1.26 million people are out of work in the state.
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Obama Hope and Change

University of California leaders made clear Thursday that they were not in a rush to embrace a controversial proposal for UC to provide healthcare for state prison inmates, with an emphasis on connecting doctors and patients remotely over the Internet.

The UC regents were scheduled to discuss the issue at a meeting in San Francisco but delayed it for at least two months, deciding to form a committee to study the plan and other options. "This is a very complicated issue, and we are going to have to spend a great deal of time to determine how and if the university is going to get involved," regents Chairman Russell S. Gould said at the meeting.
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Struggling to contain costs, does the state of California really think this proposal is a winner?

With Sunday’s vote in the House of Representatives, Congress has passed the first piece of an historic overhaul of the nation’s health care system. What will this reform mean for you — as a consumer of insurance, a patient and a California taxpayer?

In the short run, it is going to depend on where you are in the system. Most likely you will not be affected much at all for many years, despite all the fury unfolding in Washington and across the nation. In the long run, the effects could be more profound.

The bill does a lot of things, but most of them can be divided into two major categories. It tightens regulation of the insurance industry. And it expands access to care for the poor and for low-income working people.
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Thanks Dan for the great summary of Obamacare. My question is where will they get all of the money for the subsidies? The costs will be tremendous.