Medicaid to undergo 'the boldest reform' in HMO experiment
Source: MARC CAPUTO, Miami Herald (FL), Dec 9, 2005
From people with AIDS and diabetes to children and the seriously disabled, most of Broward County's poorest and most fragile residents will be subjects of a nationally watched experiment to reshape Medicaid, after the Florida Legislature voted Thursday to turn over some control of the program to private companies. …… The plan, starting in Broward and Duval counties in July, puts the state on a five-year course to enroll nearly all of its Medicaid recipients into HMO-like managed-care companies. The firms will have unprecedented say in defining benefits that the government now decides.