AP: Health cuts loom; Florida desperately seeks to slow budget growth

[ryban]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - For thousands in Florida, the wrangling over the state budget that began this week is more than just a dull government exercise.

For people in nursing homes, it could be a question of having another staffer on hand, or a few extras like new bedding or entertainment paid for by the home to ease the daily boredom.

For Tiffany Reid, a 32-year-old Bradenton mother of three fighting cystic fibrosis since birth and awaiting an organ transplant, it could decide whether she gets a life-lengthening new lung.

Reid is one of about 36,000 Floridians who can only get health care through the Medically Needy program, which provides coverage for people ineligible for Medicaid, who because of chronic or catastrophic illnesses can't get private insurance.

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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/011905/D87NDOR00.shtml

[Joanne98]

1. Jeb the murderer.

[Straight Shooter]

2. If you were worthy of good health, God would have GIVEN you good health.

There but for the grace of bush go thee.

:nuke:

[democrat in Tallahassee]

3. almost right; god would have given you money and then you

wouldn't have to worry about it. But Jeb is a hero--he is going to give us 2.5% raise next december.Don't know what we'll do with all that dough