You hear a lot these days about fears of budget cuts cutting into essential services, such as health care.
The fact is those cuts have already happened, and are already having a deleterious effect here in Florida.
Scott Allen runs the Palm Garden of Tampa for profit nursing home, an 120 licensed bed facility that offers senior care services.
But he says that with recent combined funding cuts to Medicare and Medicaid funded nursing home care in 2011, his profit margin is now history, and he fears that up to six or eight such facilities in the state could close down soon because of those cuts.
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.