These cuts at the local hospitals might not have happened if the Florida Legislature had not just rejected 55 billion federal dollars to expand Medicaid over ten years. Now these tax dollars, earmarked for Florida, will go to other states who will expand Medicaid, while almost one million people in Florida will remain uninsured.
The hopitals lose because they have to continue to treat the uninsured for free, while other states receive billions of dollars.
It's a lose, lose for everybody except for the members of the Florida House of Representatives who continue to pay $8.24 per month for their tax-payer subsidized health care. Wouldn't the Medicaid eligible uninsured love to have health insurance for $8.24 per month, or $30 per month for a family.
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