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Hospital Leaders Urge Legislators Not to Further Destabilize Florida's Healthcare Landscape

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 28th, 2008

Florida's hospital leaders today urged state legislators to reject a proposal to eliminate the state's planning process for new hospitals, warning it would further destabilize a healthcare system already bracing for huge cuts in funding to care for the elderly and poor, and already grappling with serious shortages of doctors and health workers.

Eliminating health planning for new hospitals would lead to an explosion of small, "limited service" hospitals and a two-tiered hospital system in the state -- one for the poor and uninsured and the other for healthier patients with private insurance -- hospital leaders said.

"Florida's hospitals cannot afford...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2008-03-28)

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