Originally Posted by Guest

Spoken like a caricature of the angry white old GOP voter. You can't actually believe that the average Villager believes that policies that inflict pain on poor people are good for Florida or America? And you are wrong. The hospitals that provide uncompensated care are in every county including Sumter Co. The state budget collapses without the 2.2 billion. In other states that have refused Medicaid expansion there have already been hospital closings. The dollars that the Federal government would be sending to Florida includes money that Floridians paid in Federal taxes which instead of returning here will be disbursed to other states, although it is fair to add that Florida receives far more money from Washington than it pays to Washington. Only 2 states get more back per dollar sent than Florida.

Apparently the GOP leaders of the Florida Senate should all move to Cuba and take everyone who disagrees with the most extremist positions possible. If one is not adherent to the Tea Party then one is a communist? Or is it that one is in agreement with every other developed country in the world.

So I am clear, those who feel it will be an ok thing when those Federal dollars stop, what should be the consequences for the budget and priorities for the GOP run legislature and governor? Do we just tell the hospitals to make do with less, do we close Tampa General and Shands in Central Florida? Do we institute a state income tax to cover the lost dollars? Do we raise premiums on those with private insurance so that those insurance companies can then pay more to hospitals when they get an insured patient? Or is the Right wing plan really just.. If you are poor and get sick, die. Compassionate conservatism was so George Bush, nice to see how the party has grown beyond that foolishness.