Care you paid for, coverage you can count on.

I spent forty years inside these systems. I know the real costs…what is real and what is inflated.

Most people who talk about health care in a campaign have read about it. Bill Moskal has worked in it. For four decades he served as a healthcare executive and a consultant to hospital systems across the country: Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Stanford Health Care, Cedars-Sinai for twelve years, Tampa General for seven, Baptist Health in Miami for seven, Beaumont in Michigan, and fifteen Indian Health Service clinics and tribal hospitals.

That work was never abstract. At Springfield Mercy Hospital, a facility a new CEO had been sent to close, Bill helped drive nursing turnover from over thirty percent down to less than five and put the hospital in the black for the first time in its history. The lesson he took from it is the one he brings to this race: care is about people first. Money follows when people are treated right.

The squeeze is real, and it is hitting seniors and working families first.

District 80 has one of the largest retiree populations in Southwest Florida, and those residents are being pressed from every direction at once. Federal insurance subsidies are shrinking, which drives up the cost of coverage for people who buy their own. More of the cost of Medicaid is being shifted onto the state, which puts pressure on the services that vulnerable patients, nursing home residents, and people with disabilities depend on. Prescription drug costs keep climbing. Elder care options are thinning and working families who are still years from Medicare are getting priced out of basic coverage entirely.

Bill’s position is direct: Tallahassee has a responsibility to protect the health and welfare of its residents, but it has not lived up to it. Medicaid serves a uniquely vulnerable population, and the state has a duty to make sure the money that flows from the federal government reaches the counties and facilities responsible for patient care, and that the entities providing that care are held to the standards they are supposed to meet. When the state treats health care as a place to cut rather than a promise to keep, the people who paid into these systems their entire working lives are the ones who pay again.

This is also where health care and affordability meet. People who worked their whole lives to own a home should not be forced out of it by the combined weight of insurance premiums, drug costs, and care they can no longer afford. For seniors on fixed incomes, these are not separate problems. They are the same problem, arriving in the same mailbox, in the same month.

A representative who understands the system well enough to fix it.

A state representative does not set Medicare or Social Security benefits; those are federal programs. But the state decides how Medicaid dollars are spent, how care facilities are regulated, how insurance is overseen, and whether Tallahassee stands up for its residents or stands aside.

Bill knows exactly where those levers are, because he spent his career pulling them from the inside. As your representative, he will use that knowledge, not to give speeches about health care, but to change how it works for the people of District 80.

His commitment on health care and aging is threefold, and it is specific:

To protect what you earned, lower what you pay, I will defend the people who need it most., and together we will make sure Tallahassee treats the health of District 80 residents with dignity.