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Originally Posted by Mack184
More Medi-CAID dollars will not help TVRH one scintilla. The bulk of their income is from Medi-CARE. Medi-CAID revenue at TVRH is so small as to be irrelevant.
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The Medicaid expansion called for under the Affordable Care Act would insure close to one million uninsured Floridians. Anyone earning 150% of the poverty rate would be eligible. This would probably apply to most of the employees of The Villages, plus most of the waitstaff and other service personnel.
Five billion federal dollars injected into the health care system in Florida would be better than having close to one million uninsured Floridians show up at the emergency rooms across the state and receive free health care. If hospitals didn't have to eat this loss, perhaps more jobs and benefits could be saved.
BTW: not to get too political, but the governor, the state senate, all hospitals, the chamber of commerce, and others all supported this expansion.