Crist hits campaign trail to Cover Florida
by Michael C. Bender | March 5th, 2009
Gov. Charlie Crist said today he will head to Miami, Daytona Beach and Tampa on Friday to promote a series of state web sites that are supposed to help Floridians find work, buy cheap prescription drugs and get health coverage.
“I know that people are hurting,” Crist said. “People can’t sign up for it if they don’t know it exists.”
Other tidbits from the press conference:
*The state’s 26,000 employees receive free health insurance, a perk that Crist said he wasn’t inclined to change.
*Crist shrugged off a suggestion that he oversold an unrealistic budget proposal to a legislature.
*And said he hoped that a possible tax on businesses would not prevent the state from accepting $444 million in unemployment benefits from President Obama’s stimulus package.
Tags: Charlie Crist, health insurance, stimulus, unemployment
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