Cutting Medicaid Hospice Benefit Would Cost Florida More, Put Neediest Individuals at Risk »

Posted By Varadinum 10 months, 4 weeks ago in Health & Fitness

The State of Floridas proposed elimination of the Medicaid benefit that provides hospice care to some of the states most fragile individuals actually would cost Florida millions more than the state currently spends - adding to the states budget deficit rather than reducing it - according to a newly released study commissioned by Florida Hospices and Palliative Care (FHPC), the statewide group representing all of the states hospice providers.

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    GehlLady10 months, 4 weeks ago

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    In December I lost a close friend to cancer that depended on hospice, it's sad to read others won't be able to have the care she did.

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      BronxBomber10 months, 4 weeks ago

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      Wrong! But that's so right about you Ellie...anyway, Medicaid is making cuts in the Northeast as well beginning with the nursing homes in effect for starters. You mean to tell me that they can give bailout$ to corrupt corporate executives? Politicians constantly voting for pay hike$? Auto industries? But not fund those in the middle class or lower middle class who are basically the backbone in this country when they were younger? and are now in waning health in they sunset years? Where are the priorities?

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      7thspages1 week, 4 days ago

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      It's sad!

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