Another example that Florida legislature has lost its mind (or sold out).

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/192367/250/Farrell-Files-Legalized-Granny-Dumping-On-Deck-in-2012

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Despite calls from patient advocates to avoid a repeat of the corruption and reported substandard care that plagued the Florida Medicaid HMO Pilot Program, the Florida Legislature voted last week to begin moving all three million Floridian Medicaid plan participants into a private HMO program that is almost identical to Florida's prior pilot program.  If the federal government agrees to this plan, Florida will become the first state in the nation to move its entire Medicaid population into HMO's.

But there is ONE major difference in this latest plan.  Unlike the Florida Medicaid Pilot Plan, this new plan would begin shifting elderly patients into HMO's first.  In Florida's prior pilot program, and similar programs throughout the U.S., younger, healthier patients were the first to be shifted in private managed care.  Under this plan, the elderly and disabled would the first moved to HMO's.  Florida Speaker of the House Dean Cannon has stated that targeting elderly Floridians for removal from nursing homes first is a good idea because they can benefit from staying at home and remaining independent through the utilization of home health care.

Obviously Speaker Cannon is not a student of Florida Medical History.  For if he was... he would be acutely aware of the rampant fraud and abuse that has germinated in the Florida home healthcare Industry over the past decade.  Miami-Dade has been cited in numerous publications as the