Using fines to fund trauma care?

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Orlando Sentinel
January 5, 2004
Editorial
Give green light to fines

A legislative proposal to provide badly needed money to hospital trauma centers by increasing the traffic fine for red-light runners deserves support.

This approach could be a winner for Orlando Regional Medical Center and other hospitals that are struggling to come up with money to keep their trauma centers running.

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Comment: Let’s get serious! We desperately need a rational system of funding all health care. Negligible tweaks just won’t do it.