Power of touch: Teenage preacher does faith healing

 7/19/2008 © Miami Herald
Gabriela Monterroso,16, likes hanging out at the mall, high heels, and healing the sick  -- currently at a storefront center in North Miami Beach. A motherless Guatemalan refugee, she and her father lived in an old car for two years before her religious talent began to bring in money. At a recent service, a man with liver cancer says she cured him with her touch. "Anything is possible if you believe," she says.

Housing of foster kids blasted

7/19/2008 (c) Miami Herald
Broward County's privately run foster care agency houses far too many children -- including babies -- in large group homes and shelters, a practice many states have banned because it can cause ''serious, long-lasting harm,'' a consultant warned.

Report praises Medicaid pilot; Inspector General resigns

Bond

By Christine Jordan Sexton
7/18/2008 © Florida Health News
TALLAHASSEE -- A new report from a free-market think tank argues that Florida’s Medicaid pilot program has “numerous accomplishments” and should be expanded statewide. Author Michael Bond of Cleveland State University contends that previous studies critical of the program -- including one by AHCA Inspector General Linda Keen – were flawed. The report is being published just as news emerges that Keen has resigned under pressure.