My friends this is the Final Part of my series How Not To Run A Community ! This focuses on a letter to The Editor of The Ocala Star Banner I wrote in 2012 before I moved away from there. It deals with an issue I know quite Well Healthcare and Hospitals ! Our Community Hospital Munroe Regional Medical Center was over 100 Years old and a Great Public Hospital ! It saved my life a few times. But was on the Block to be sold if a 1/2 cent tax failed to pass. Due to revenue losses treating the uninsured like me.

Safety Net
Why Change Something that isn’t broken ?
Munroe Regional Medical Center is a safety- net hospital for those of us who are uninsured. Our Hospital MRMC is a Crown Jewel in the area.
If it turns into a For Profit hospital where do the uninsured of whom there are many in this area go ? Where do Pregnant Mothers go ? Because as we all know For Profit Hospitals do not Provide these services. The reasons no profit and High Insurance rates.
If MRMC does not stay a public hospital it will be a black eye on our community.  The idea of a sustainable community is to have services for all the people-not just the priveledged.
Wake Up residents of Ocala/Marion County before it is too late. Don’t let the powers that be take away a vital reseource.
Demand that any changes to MRMC be voted on by us, the residents of this area, so we don’t become like other communities without safety-net hospitals
Fred W.Christian Jr
Ocala

Final thought I mentioned this in several #ExpandMedicaidNow blogs and guess what in 2012 MRMC was sold after the 1/2 cent tax failed to Shands UF a For Profit Hospital corp. So we face this in Fl still and nationally ! Do ee want #SafetyNet Hospitals or Not ? I Do ! We must save Hospitals and #ExpandMedicaidNow ! Thank you God Bless 

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