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The Blog for Monday, December 27, 2004

Senator Argenziano Wonders Why?

    The AP has a story covered by the Tallahassee Dem yesterday
    More than 2.3-million of the state's poorest residents may have decisions on their Medicaid eligibility and other welfare assistance programs made by a company if Gov. Jeb Bush ....

    Yet no difference in savings is projected ....

    "If that's the case, and they're projecting a wash, I don't understand why" it would be done, said Sen. Nancy Argenziano, R-Crystal River, chairwoman of the Government Oversight and Productivity Committee.

    She has complained that her committee hasn't been able to obtain data in the past when evaluating privatization of government work.

    Earlier this month, a key DCF administrator in charge of such contracts resigned and warned that many of the agency's major contracts were being rushed through too fast. The Bush administration has been plagued by problems trying to privatize state functions, the most recent at DCF.
    "Medicaid eligibility may be privatized".

    Oh dear, Senator Argenziano wonders, "If that's the case [no savings], and they're projecting a wash, I don't understand why" it would be privatized? She knows perfectly well that it is all about political payback; "Jeb!"'s privatization scheme
    has spawned a network of contractors who have given him, other Republican politicians and the Florida G.O.P. millions of dollars in campaign donations."
    "Victors and Spoils"

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