A report issued last week by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured shows that Florida would suffer some of the deepest cuts in federal Medicaid spending under a plan proposed by Republicans in the U.S.
“„Projected federal spending on Medicaid for the 10-year period 2012 to 2021 would fall by $1.4 trillion, a 34 percent decline. By 2021, states would receive $243 billion less annually in federal Medicaid money than they would under current law, a 44 percent reduction. #