How many Florida children died during Jeb's tenure as governor?

[RandySF]

Seems, if I recall correctly, one child after another died while part of the Child Protective Services system?

[jberryhill]

1. Nobody lives forever

[katmondoo]

2. One was never found

[ElectedCriminal]

3. How did these children die?

How did he kill them? Are all the dead kids because of him?

[harrose]

8. Not him personally perhaps...

... but certainly because of his policies or Repuke policies.

[djean111]

4. We can never, of course, know that number, but this is how Jebbie thinks:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/10/news_pf/State/Deeming_waiting_list_.shtml

Deeming waiting list a bother, Republicans plan to discard it

ALISA ULFERTS
Published February 10, 2004
TALLAHASSEE - For weeks, Democrats have urged Gov. Jeb Bush and Republican legislative leaders to eliminate a waiting list for a popular children's health insurance program.

Senate Republicans want to do just that, but not the way Democrats had hoped.

Under a plan to be unveiled today, the state no longer would maintain a waiting list for the Healthy Kids program. Children who can't enroll would simply try again later.

"What we don't want is that pressure of lists building and building and building with the false hope that these kids are going to get state help if they can't," Senate President Jim King told the St. Petersburg Times editorial board Monday.

The image of tens of thousands of children waiting to get health insurance because lawmakers capped enrollment last year has been a sizable political headache for Gov. Jeb Bush and the Republican-controlled Legislature.
(snip)

[djean111]

6. The St. Pete Times is pretty good at due diligence, and I don't think they

depend on quotes from a state web site. And who determines who the "real people" are? The waiting lists are not filled with "real people"?

I know all about the other programs - I actually LIVE in Florida, and have raised my grandson, on my own, since he was about three or four. He is now 19, and I am living on my Social Security.
He had his eyes operated on (for muscle and nerve problems), and got hearing aids through this program. When he was very young. Back then the premium, for us, was $90 a month. A couple of years ago, when he needed new hearing aids, we got on that six month wheel, trying to get to the waiting list in time. Took three tries. And then he was too old.

It's only human nature to want to get something for free and when you are dealing with millions of people, the abuse rate is enormous. I truly hope the kids who do need it get help they need but unfortunately I know first hand by seeing my able bodied friends and family members take money that a real person needs.

I am so sorry that there are "welfare queens" in amongst your friends and family, but that is no reason to jettison an entire insurance program for poor kids. Poor people need health care. They want it for their children.
To jettison health care for poor children just because of your friends and family is pretty low. Maybe you just need better friends and family. Why don't you turn them in? There is a place to do that, right on the Florida Access website home page.

Odd to have someone join DU just to champion Jebbie.

Here is a recent article about poverty in Florida. Maybe Jeb can give them some cake and bandaids. Amazing this this is happening under Rick Scott, eh?
http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2012/02/14/poverty-homelessness-rising-sharply-among-florida-students/

The title of the article is spot on.