{"id":13222,"date":"2015-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/politifact-florida-dissects-rick-scotts-argument-about-sending-tax-money-to-profitable-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:59:13","slug":"politifact-florida-dissects-rick-scotts-argument-about-sending-tax-money-to-profitable-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/politifact-florida-dissects-rick-scotts-argument-about-sending-tax-money-to-profitable-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Florida dissects Rick Scott’s argument about sending tax money to profitable hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true.<\/p>\n

www.tampabay.com \u2014 Before the Florida Legislature<\/a> fought to a budget standstill over a hole in health care funding, Gov. Rick Scott said lawmakers should stop worrying about giving state money<\/a> to profitable hospitals.<\/p>\n

His warning came as legislators faced losing the Low Income Pool, or LIP, a joint state-federal program that helps some hospitals and clinics pay for treating uninsured and underinsured patients. Washington last year announced the fund was going to expire in 2015, taking at least $1.3 billion in matching federal funds out of the state budget.<\/p>\n

Read more about PolitiFact Florida dissects Rick Scott’s argument about sending tax money to profitable hospitals<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out more Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true. www.tampabay.com \u2014 Before the Florida Legislature fought to a budget standstill over a hole in health care funding, Gov. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28833,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions\/28833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}