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No Medicaid Reform Expansion
The House was pushing for language in the health care budget implementing bill that would have expanded Medicaid reform pilot projects to an additional nine counties (Miami-Dade, Monroe, Pasco, Pinellas, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Polk, and Manatee) -an effort strongly opposed by FAC. During budget negotiations, the Senate refused to accept the House's proposal to expand reform to those counties by 2010. Opposing Medicaid reform expansion was one of FAC’s priority issues for 2008 and FAC appreciates the Senate’s efforts to oppose extension to additional counties until problems identified in the current pilot areas have been satisfactorily resolved. For more information, please contact Heather Wildermuth.