Feds to Florida: Medicaid expansion is better use of tax dollars
The federal government on Tuesday sent a letter to Deputy Medicaid Director Justin Senior saying that expanding Medicaid to low-income, uninsured Floridians is a better use of tax dollars than establishing Medicaid supplemental spending formulas such as the Low Income Pool. Department of Health and Human Services Acting Director Vikki Wachino said in the April 14 letter ย that “coverage rather than uncompensated care pools is the best way to secure affordable access coverage to health care for low-income individuals, and…