{"id":7922,"date":"2011-06-27T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2011-06-27T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:51:45","slug":"democrat-asks-feds-to-nix-florida-medicaid-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7922","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Asks Feds To Nix Florida Medicaid Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Senate <strong>Democratic Leader Nan Rich<\/strong> has asked federal officials to reject Florida&#8217;s Medicaid overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a pair of bills that will turn the state-federal program over to private businesses or hospital groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rich<\/strong> wrote in a letter Thursday that there is no way the companies can provide proper care for the poor and disabled and still make a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Florida will need a waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the transition. It would build on an existing five-county experimental program in managed care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gov. Rick Scott<\/strong> and other GOP supporters say privatizing the $20 billion program will save money for state and federal taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich has asked federal officials to reject Florida&#8217;s Medicaid overhaul. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a pair of bills that will turn the state-federal program over to private businesses or hospital groups. Rich wrote in a letter Thursday that there is no way the companies can provide proper care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}