No.
That rumor and others like it have been around since the two tax supported hospital districts on Florida's Funcoast joined together in Halifax·Fish Community Health to improve services and reduce costs. A part of the covenant under which HFCH was created expressly prohibits any tax dollars raised in one district from being spent outside that district, and a careful accounting of the uses of tax dollars is kept that is regularly audited and readily available for anyone to inspect. In your district, the Southeast Volusia Hospital District, tax dollars are used to maintain a modern hospital and services that will allow you to be sure of immediate and high quality care without having to go far from home, and to cover the costs of district residents without insurance or the means to pay. In the Halifax District, all tax dollars go toward meeting the health care needs of those who can establish medical indigency, and they fall short of fully covering those needs by millions of dollars each year.
