Health care surtax

State rep described her legislation requiring identifying information in the state fibroid database and asked the county to include fibroids in the surtax program.

Former state rep cited research linking fibroids to cardiovascular risk and urged including fibroids in the surtax program.

The program's paid consultant, a self-described skeptic, confirmed 57 percent of screened patients had findings and over 800 needed cardiac intervention.

Cleveland Clinic hospital president describing how the screening program changed lives, including his own colon cancer story.

Pastor of Hopewell Baptist Church speaking for the South Broward Ministerial Alliance in full support of the surtax referendum.

Shared that his daughter might be alive if the program had existed eight years ago; asked how treatment after diagnosis gets paid.

Pompano community activist urging that voters get the final say on the surtax.

Former skeptic who took the heart scan and now supports it, while asking that benefits be limited to long-term county residents.