Medicaid Reform – Florida

Jeb Bush’s Medicaid plan faces uncertain fate, By Marc Caputo, February 3, 2010, Miami Herald: “Costs are down. Patients appear to be satisfied. Doctors are practicing more preventive care. Despite these encouraging signs, former Gov. Jeb Bush’s ‘Medicaid Reform’ experiment looks like it won’t expand statewide beyond Broward County and four Jacksonville-area counties as he had hoped. The HMO industry doesn’t like parts of the plan. Liberals say the program hasn’t been properly studied. And Republican legislators are concentrating on solutions of their own to control growing costs of the program. But not all the ideas behind Medicaid Reform — such as expanding managed care, providing hospitals more money or trying to provide more patient choice — are dead…”