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“with you” starts now.♪Xavier: Welcome. greets youXavier Romero. thanks forallow us to enter yourhomes. wings of 20 hospitalsin our state they receivepatients who have medicarelose millions of dollars infunds this year after arecent decision of thestate legislators. thehospitals belonging toof those who will be affectedfor this measure. we want to givewelcome to carlos, bosshealth system executiveby jackson. Welcome. Thank youwhat are the hospitals insouth florida what do you knowlook y’all for these cutoutsbudget?Carlos: the hospitalsthe wings are publicshocked.between the two of us, we saw a clippingof $50,000,000.javier: the hospitalsthey will continue to count on himdirect payment program?many health centersThey argue that this is notenough. what is it aboutthat program and why will it remaina deficit to cover?carlos: the state of floridafor many years he never touched thetiming of paymentsdirect. the hospitals thatthey use medicare, which is the insurancefor poor people,only direct payment isapproximately $0.50 of spendingcomplete that we have on thatclass of patients. this paymentdirect is additional moneythat the government gives us wherebrings us to basically $0.80of the expense we have with yourpatient. we can count onthat in the future.Unfortunately, the reportis giving it strictly tohospitals that have moremedicare in the state of theFlorida. jackson, being 40% ofthe patients. thats why hecutout of us is sobig. there are other hospitalsthat have direct payment, thatwere never hit bythis cut that occurred in thelegislature. are hospitals thathave other types of insurancethey are with income wings.Javier: And what reason does he give you?legislature do this with thecarlos: because since we have thedirect payment, we cancounter this. It is truethat direct payment does not helpsomething, but they did not affect thehospitals that are private,They have Medicare thinkingthat we had enough. I knowwith the cut we have ofnurses and that is not theright time to do thiscuts class on pointhospitals were impactedpoor.Javier: in what way?pandemic has affected theeconomy in general?carlos: inflation isimportant too. in thistime demand and wageshas been increasing. uswe have been for several monthsin the minimum also with thedemand we have raisedwages substantially.Additionally, we have aposition of nurseswe are paying up to $200 ahour, which gives us an incrementof expenses of $150,000,000 tojavier: is there any otherobstacle that today isfacing health system?carlos: yes, there are severalobstacles, this is the acebig of all. we arecooperating with schoolsnurses where we areincreasing the number ofpeople and the positive part,that there are many people whosickness we are carryingother resources to increasethe number of students.we are giving scholarships to many ofthese students, whereEventually those peopleThey graduate as nurses.obviously that’s long termand we have to find a waypossible to have wingschances of having