So Miami Univ. saves 20 mil in insurance costs. I predict zero of that savings will go to reducing tuition. It will just be “found” money for Shalala and the U to blow on pet projects.
In my day, right across from each other, were the Jackson Memorial Hospital ("the Big Jack") campus, the V.A. Hospital campus and the old, private Cedars Hospital.
Jackson Memorial is the huge county, charity care hospital that is flooded with low-income patients and the casualties of the "Knife & Gun Club". At Jackson, the most socially dysfunctional elements in Miami get charity medical care and a change to win the Malpractice Lottery if the emergency surgeries at 2:00 AM for 3 separate gunshot wounds to the abdomen don't turn out just right.
Since U.M. had the "deep pockets", U.M. would get sued for anything and everything.
From what I have heard, U.M. bought the old Cedar's Hospital, turned it into "University of Miami Hospital" and was planning to take only patients of it's own choosing after say "good riddance" to the Jackson Memorial hellhole.
It seems that the Florida Legislature's actions were taken to avoid this scenario.