Governor of Florida proposes Medicaid Overhaul
His proposal may affect over two million people in Florida who are part of the Medicaid Program - mainly seniors and people on lower incomes. J Bush says Medicaid needs to be overhauled. Medicaid costs have been rising at twice the rate of other state spending.
J Bush said "We're left with a broken system that creates barriers for patients, removes incentives for compassionate high-quality health care and encourages fraud and abuse by some vendors who have learned how to gain from the system rather than take care of Florida's most vulnerable citizens." J Bush would like to see the state's role limited to quality control, education and supervision. He would like to have private organizations take over the running of things while the state pays premiums for Medicaid recipients.
Under his plan, Medicaid recipients would have more choice, says J Bush. Since 1999 Medicaid costs have more than doubled in Florida. According to J Bush's estimates, Medicaid costs will account for 60% of Florida's spending in ten years' time if nothing is done to change the system.
As over half of the money for Medicaid expenditure comes from central government, Bush said that this will take time - it will also need federal approval.
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