The new law allows taxpayers’ money to fund any legitimate provider of care for the poor — not just hospitals — but it must be used only for qualified indigent patients, according to the report.
Before this law, money collected from the hospital taxing district used to be given directly to Florida Hospital Waterman in Tavares and Leesburg (Fla.) Regional Medical Center for general hospital expenses.
After seeing how the law works, voters will have an opportunity in 2016 to determine whether to continue taxing themselves or eliminate the tax entirely, according to the report.
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