1. Inside the Locked Unit Days spent within a Baker Act crisis unit show that Florida’s mental health safety net is as stressed as its clients. 2. Mandatory health insurance: Costs to vary with individual, state Months ahead of the Obamacare web site launch, people like Boynton Beach waitress Karen Crivellone wonder and worry about whether Health Policy will really help them. 3. Hospitals dodge admitting seniors After Aspasia Matsoukas broker her pelvis, she couldn’t stand, walk or use the bathroom on her own. Yet hospital ER doctors would not admit her to the hospital, nor would they transfer her to a nursing home. She had fallen into a Medicare cost-cutting Twilight Zone known as “observation status.” 4. Obamacare may curb paperwork The Affordable Care Act’s “no wrong door” application may wind up adding to Florida’s Medicaid rolls even without official Medicaid expansion. To understand why, talk to Greg Eisenstein. The disabled property manager says the state of Florida is putting him through a bureaucratic obstacle course, one apparently designed to prevent him from using his benefits.
