Florida’s decision to privatize government-subsidized healthcare for more than 3 million Medicaid recipients will lower costs and improve care, state leaders say. But the new managed care system is also exposing some Floridians in Medicaid, the state/federal insurance program for children, the poor and disabled, to the uncertainties of the private market for the first time. Malissa Miller, a Medicaid recipient born with a rare and deadly intestinal condition called Hirschsprung’s disease, thought for months that she would have to move from her Broward home to another county in order to receive the treatment she believed would save her life. She says her insurer repeatedly told her she could...
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