The Florida Senate

408.005  Legislative findings and intent.--

(1)  The Legislature finds that health care inflation, a deteriorating health care delivery system, reduced state revenues, changing demographics, and the erosion of private health insurance have converged to create a crisis of reduced access to health services for the poor and the uninsured. The Legislature recognizes that the problem of the health access crisis cannot be solved with the simple expansion of existing programs, but requires major reform of the health care delivery system.

(2)  It is the intent of the Legislature to create The Florida Health Plan in order to provide a vehicle for health reform. The Florida Health Plan shall represent a comprehensive approach to health care reform and shall be composed of multiple strategies. The Legislature intends that The Florida Health Plan address specific goals related to access to basic health services, insurance reforms, data collection and analysis, cost containment, and reforms in regulatory programs that are provided for in this chapter.

History.--s. 6, ch. 92-33.