Our Florida House of Representatives and the big picture
To the editor:
The new Florida state budget signed by Gov. Rick Scott, and our local representatives did nothing for the welfare of its citizens.
Accounted for and rising are 1000 people who will die this coming year without Medicaid expansion. This is just an estimate of part of the damage created because of the recent neglectful decision from your local officials towards the federal government: 800,000 Floridians are desperately in need of medical attention,and will not get appropriate care they need to survive.
There are 1.2 million people in Florida who go to emergency rooms without health insurance.
Medicaid has been subsidized through allocated Federal funds recovered from taxpayers’ dollars. This would have been a win-win situation or what is commonly called a financial wash.
With our local representatives not allowing this to pass, Lee County will lose another $140 million. Without this, no jobs created and other costly expenses, adding more damage to our local economic growth.
Do you know anyone with ALS or other serious disease who can not get appropriate help because of this issue caused my their neglect ?
Do you believe that all people deserve to die in dignity and without financial neglect from those who are elected into office?
Federal funds have been readily allocated and placed aside from taxpayer dollars for this purpose and yet they still do not get the big picture, which is goodness for all mankind in Florida. Putting it lightly, Florida lacks respect for its citizens welfare.
Any elected official who does not reach out and help the poor, in my opinion should not be serving in office. There are, at this time, only a few states which have not signed up to Medicaid expansion. Instead of leading, we are receding.
The other issue neglected in this new budget was Amendment 1, voted upon by Floridians, and authorizing the use of our taxpayers’ dollars to preserve our waterways and the Florida Everglades. The Florida Everglades are slowing dying because of neglect from much-needed diverted water to flow south and save our national park.
There are more unreasonable excuses from the state so they won’t have to finish this job when, in fact, Florida previously defrayed these costs from the general fund.
Is this another issue of doing the right thing to preserve Florida’s breath taking beauty?
These elected officials are unwilling to see the forest from the trees, and are in fact, not leading us into the big picture of beauty, goodness, and economic prosperity.
Deborah Green
Cape Coral