Issues to Consider in Governor Bush's "Florida Medicaid Modernization Proposal”

March 2005


Authors: Joan Alker and Lisa Portelli

Published by: Winter Park Health Foundation


This issue brief discusses Florida Governor’s Medicaid Modernization Proposal (released in January 2005), describing how the plan envisions that Medicaid costs will be reduced, how the new system will work, and what it will mean for beneficiaries and providers.

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This issue brief is part of the Florida’s Health at Risk project, a series of educational briefs on issues impacting Florida’s families conducted by researchers at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and funded by the Winter Park Health Foundation.