After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

Republican U.S. Sen. George LeMieux marked the six-month anniversary of the passage of new federal health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama by attacking the new measures.

Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, hailed the Republican Party's "Pledge to America" today, saying: For the last two years, the American people have been speaking out against the Washington agenda of more spending, more borrowing and more taxes. They have clamored for new ideas and better solutions, but the majority party has ignored their voices.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty will meet with health insurers Friday in what could be a first step toward pursuing a waiver of a controversial provision of the federal health-care legislation. McCarty and more than 30 other insurance commissioners from other states met with White House officials Wednesday to discuss the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. McCarty expressed his concern about the medial-loss ratio, or MLR provision of the law, which states that insurers must spend 80 percent of their expenses on actual medical care.

Anyone whos returned a movie late to Blockbuster can enjoy a little schadenfreude now that the worlds largest movie-rental company has filed for bankruptcy. Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday after incurring an excess of its own late fees -- the company has listed assets of $1.02 billion vs. a debt of $1.46 billion, according to Bloomberg News.