Homeowners Insurance Rises In Florida

How many would drop out if they had to pay a Medicaid premium?

“Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't,” said the Gainesville stay-at-home mom.

An academic exercise from Georgetown University that was released last month suggests that many parents such as Powers can't afford such a payment.

The Jessie Ball DuPont Fund commissioned a study that GU's Health Policy Institute authored. The study found that the $10-per-patient premium that the Florida Legislature put into the Medicaid reform measure last year likely would result in more than 800,000 children — nearly half of the state's current caseload of children — dropped from the Medicaid rolls.

Florida's premium would be the most far-reaching to date because of the charge to everyone regardless of income or age, the report says.

The premiums are part of a larger Medicaid reform proposal the Legislature passed and that Gov. Rick Scott signed last year. It aims chiefly to move the state's nearly 3 million Medicaid recipients into managed care plans run by private companies. The state would pay the private companies a set amount per patient to manage each person's care.

The federal government has to approve the changes -— including the premium requirement — and that decision is pending. Federal officials said they don't have a timeline for approval.

State Rep. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, said he voted for last year's reform package that included the premiums. He has also proposed another set of reforms for this session that would put Medicaid beneficiaries into more traditional, private plans.

But he's torn on whether they should pay premiums.

“There should be some level of support” from Medicaid recipients, he said, also adding that he wouldn't want to see truly disadvantaged Floridians dropped from Medicaid because they couldn't pay.

The governor's press office laid out a similar position.

“I can tell you he wants to preserve our safety nets for our children and the most vulnerable among us,” said Lane Wright, Scott's spokesman.

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