Better Have A Big Bank Account!
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10/19/2006
Hillsborough County, what a place. Everything that everybody has been posting is true about Tampa. Worst crime, worst traffic, worst housing market, Red-Tide etc etc......But the WORST thing is the health care system. I'll give you an example: My mother-inlaw moved down with my husband and I spring of 05. Found here a nice apartment in the Sun City area... She was living off of SS(widows benefits) getting around $988.00 a month. She needed to get medical assistance from medicaid, since she was on a limited budget. She had Multiple Myloma(spelling?)(Infences on had, since she past 6 months after moving here!) Anyway, medicaid told her and my husband and I that she would have a deductible of $800.00 a month to be on medicaid. Mind you that she only makes $988.00 a month on SS. My husband blurted out: "What she suppose to live in a card board box just to have medical attention." I'm telling you the whole sitution was sicking and very sad...I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get the idea. Florida is way over-rated. I can live without warm weather almost year round. My husband and I can't waite to get back up North. The sooner the better!!!!!!!!
Tracie | Brandon, FL