Fishkind Commentaries: Medicaid Cuts Will Hit Florida's Hospitals
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
By: Tom Parkinson

Dec. 20, 2011 | WMFE - In just a few weeks, state lawmakers will convene in Tallahassee for the start of the annual legislative session. The session is starting early so that lawmakers will have time to work on new congressional and legislative maps for the state. But they will also be faced with the task of trying to make state government work with the amount of money available for the coming year.

Gov. Rick Scott is proposing a $66.4 billion dollar spending plan.
Economic analyst Hank Fishkind is helping us sort out what this all means. 90.7’s Tom Parkinson asked him to start with the revenue side and explain where that 66 billion dollars is expected to come from.