Florida governor denies healthcare coverage to Puerto Ricans living with HIV/AIDS

[TexasTowelie]

ORLANDO, USA — HIV/AIDS advocates from across the region joined AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest, non-profit HIV/AIDS service organization, on Friday in Orlando, Florida, to protest against Governor Rick Scott’s denial of a Medicaid managed healthcare plan that provides critical coverage to Puerto Ricans and other vulnerable populations living with HIV/AIDS in Florida.

Since 1999, the plan, managed by Positive Healthcare (PHC), which is administered by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, has provided for the sensitive medical needs of over 2,000 individuals in Florida, living with HIV/AIDS.

In late April, Florida Medicaid officials announced the awarding of Medicaid contracts, worth up to $90 billion, to five for-profit managed care plans, excluding several other companies, including Positive Healthcare (PHC), the only non-profit healthcare provider that offers insurance coverage for the critical, sensitive healthcare needs of those living with HIV.

As a result of the initial decision, several of the denied agencies, including PHC, filed formal protests with Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA), which manages the state’s Medicaid program, all challenging the state’s decision, citing severe defects in the RFP and decision making process.

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[Corgigal]

1. Dumb as dirt.

Don't tell those white people, even the elderly white people but they can get AIDS/HIV from tan Americans too.

Vote kids.

[Cha]

2. That should

endear Puerto Ricans to vote for heartless scott for senator.

[COLGATE4]

5. You would think so - but there was just a report

(2-3 days ago, if memory serves) that the Puerto Ricans resident in Florida now are not registering to vote.

[Cha]

6. That's not good.. I wonder why?

[COLGATE4]

7. I think it's probably because they have already

endured so much in the past year that they just don't believe in the political system anymore. The sad part is that the Florida Democratic Party has not (as far as I can ascertain) made any effort to reach out to these people to encourage them to register and vote. Don't have a clue why this is.

[Cha]

8. I know the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Cruz, endorsed

Bill Nelson on July 29th.

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210940218

[brer cat]

3. Republicans keep making "deplorables"

a fitting epithet.

K&R

[Racerdog1]

4. Skeletor is an asshole.

Sorry piece of shit should be in prison for the fraud he committed against medicare. Now this bastard wants to be a senator? He has royally fucked the state of Florida, now he wants to do the same to everyone else.

[mitch96]

9. "denies healthcare coverage to Puerto Ricans"

Otherwise, how to endear yourself to people while trying to get elected to the senate..
THIS should be the rally cry to get these recent transplanted people to register and vote...
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[lpbk2713]

10. Rick Scott is a thief and a liar.

Letting Rick Scott anywhere near Medicare/Medicaid
money is like letting the fox enter the chicken coop.