Reports not good for FL's 'safety-net' hospitals

In Highlands County, the need to provide charity medical care is not uncommon. According to the 2013 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, about 20 of the county's approximately 99,000 residents live below the Florida poverty line of $11,490 annually, making getting medical care difficult. And that might even become harder by the summer. In reports released in January by Florida Legal Services, a non-profit organization founded in 1973 to provide civil legal assistance to indigent persons who would not otherwise have the access to a lawyer, the state's healthcare providers for low-income residents could lose $2 billion a year.