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Health Solutions Tour About Neither Health Nor Solutions (Part 1 of 3) (2010-08-20)

August 20, 2010- What did we learn from State Senate President-Elect Mike Haridopolos' recent whirlwind "Health Solutions Tour"? During each of the series of quick tour stops, he and other Senate leaders pitched the long-repeated and misleading claim that Medicaid is breaking the bank in Florida to hand-picked audiences

An "Exchange" of Ideas (2010-06-27)

June 25, 2010- It certainly took me by surprise. Running a few minutes late to a meeting of the Florida Health Choices Corporation Board, I arrived just in time to catch the first of several references to FHC as “Florida's health insurance exchange”.

No, Really (2010-05-11)

The journey to passage of national health care reform was much longer and harder than it should have been because opponents misrepresented so many facts…or even lied. And while it's hardly a revelation that we`re more likely to believe a lie yelled 6 times than a truth mentioned once, the power behind that principle seems greater than we could have imagined.

Managing myths in Medicaid managed care (2010-04-15)

(4/13/10) Legislative leaders have used certain statements as a basis for proposing a series of expansions of Medicaid managed care. It's compelling stuff that greases the wheels for action. Unfortunately, we`ve heard it all before. It wasn`t true then, however, and it still isn`t true today.

Medicaid overhaul - deja voucher? (2010-04-03)

If you start out with a bad plan and things go awry, is the most effective way to put that failure behind you to start pitching a plan that's ten times worse? Then maybe the original bad idea doesn`t seem so bad?

AHCA on Reform Expansion: It's Convenient (2010-02-24)

AHCA has been making it increasingly clear to the Legislature that it wants to see the Medicaid Reform experiment both continued and expanded. Most recently, AHCA Secretary Tom Arnold presented an explicit proposal to expand the Pilot from 5 to 24 counties next year to a Senate committee.