Hillsborough Healthcare or

Embarrassing Costly Ordinances

• Medically Needy in Limbo• Physicians Leaving Practice• Social Security and Medicare Tax Cut• Crimes in Hillsborough County Down

Medically Needy

• 21% increase in new HIV cases

• Cut in Medicaid services for 26,000

• Medically Needy Coverage Changes in Limbo after June 2003

Physicians' Walkout

• Several emergency rooms transferred patients to other hospitals on May 6 after about 100 doctors stopped working to protest the Legislature's failure to curb rising costs.

• Associated Press: Tuesday, May 6, 2003

Social Security and Medicare Tax Cut

• Anyone earning more than $83,000 does not pay Social Security or Medicare Tax on the earnings above $83,000

• It has the net effect of being a tax cut

Florida Sex Offenses DOWN

Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Hillsborough County Sex Crimes DECREASE

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1992 2002

SexCrimes

Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Do Not Allow Commissioner Storms to

Waste more Tax Dollars & Embarrass County

• $200,000 tax dollars wasted on public access lawsuit

• $500,000 tax dollars wasted on costly consultants

• $$$ ??? Lawsuit for violating 1st Amendment Rights of County Employee

• $$?? Violates Sunshine Laws

Hillsborough Priorities

• HEALTHCARE

• TRANSPORTATION

• FIRE SAFETY

• LIBRARIES

• DOMESTIC SECURITY