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State Seeks To Preserve Its System For Low-Income Patients

Herald Tribune

By: Kim Doleatto

Florida’s Medicaid waiver is to expire on June 2017, and so Florida is requesting that the federal government extend a five-year-old program into private insurance plans to save money.

Still, the system has its critics. This year a statewide survey of pediatricians — commissioned by a partnership between the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Herald-Tribune — found that access to decent care is a problem for children on Medicaid.

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