The hypocrisy and double standards of the Florida is an outrage. While millions of Floridians go without healthcare, its lawmakers are opposed to that being changed. In fact, they only want healthcare for themselves, their families and other members of their exclusive clubs.
Florida doesn’t limit the subsidies to statewide officeholders like Gov. Charlie Crist and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, or to legislators like Senate President Jeff Atwater and House Speaker Larry Cretul. About 27,479 state employees — many of them high-level bureaucrats and political appointees — also get the break. So do their families. “I think it’s appropriate. I think it’s part of the compensation package for a public servant,” Crist said. “It’s a policy that has been supported by the Legislature and I’m comfortable with it.”
