TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida would save mere nickels, dimes or pennies for every federal dollar it passes up should the state heed Gov. Rick Scott's call to reject Medicaid expansion under the national health care overhaul, preliminary figures show.
State economists met Tuesday to review the numbers developed by the Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the joint state-federal program.
The agency assumed all people eligible for existing as well as expanded Medicaid services through the Affordable Care Act would participate. The economists, though, reduced the anticipated participation rates, and the figures will be reworked.
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