You Helped Derail Risky Medicaid Overhaul!

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Much thanks to Ven Sequenzia, for helping to organize the protests against the push to HMOs for Medicaid.

You Helped Derail Risky Medicaid

Overhaul!

It's by far the best news Medicaid recipients have received

in this difficult 2010 session.

Legislative leaders (and Governor Crist) have agreed

that there is too much risk and not enough potential benefit

associated with ramming through any massive Medicaid managed

care expansion this year. After negotiating for the

better part of a week over their differing approaches, House and

Senate leaders announced that they will not pursue an overhaul

of Medicaid this year, but rather will continue to explore

options over a longer period.

As of now, both the House`s proposal to expand Medicaid

managed care statewide over several years, and the Senate`s

proposal to expand the current Medicaid Reform experiment to 19

additional counties next year appear dead.

This outcome could not have occurred without the

efforts made by Medicaid advocates and our partners. You

helped explain the risk of moving ahead given the many

unanswered questions about the current Reform experiment and no

fully thought-out plan for expanding it.

However, the session is not scheduled to end until Friday,

and the Legislature must at a minimum agree to ask the feds for

an extension of the Medicaid waiver. We need to continue to

watch carefully until adjournment.

Thank you for rising to the challenge to protect the

vulnerable Floridians who rely on Medicaid!

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