Officials Seek to Expand Health Insurance Study

Now, state leaders want to expand that test program in healthcare privatization statewide, from the 270,000 currently covered by private managed care insurance to most of Florida's expected 3.2 million Medicaid patients this year.(In Polk County, about 108,000, or 18.5 percent, are covered by Medicaid.)Despite numerous problems and red flags -- including highly-critical independent audits by Georgetown University researchers and the Legislature's own policy research office -- Florida lawmakers

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