Reader letters
Florida’s state budget has a $2 billion shortfall? So, stop spending millions of dollars for the “three toll roads to nowhere”!
The federal government has already given the state $5.8 billion in COVID-19 relief. How much Affordable Care Act (ACA) money would they give us to expand Medicaid? Floridians pay federal taxes that are being handed out to other states, as Florida hospitals struggle and bill all of us for emergency room care for Floridians without health insurance. I wonder how many high-tech medical jobs could be created with ACA money?
Florida Republicans have long handed out lots of tax dollars to agencies like Enterprise Florida, Space Florida and Visit Florida to create jobs. Using ACA money to expand Medicaid could also do that, and create more productive, tax-paying citizens.