It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We told them that these things would happen. It's frustrating.

On the whole, we're very pleased.

Unless some crisis triggers action, it usually takes us years to get something passed. And we can only do one thing at a time because we're not allowed to go after things comprehensively. We think it will be helpful to have a dedicated group of legislators who are sitting down and looking at issues in a more intense, concentrated way.

I anticipated a cut, but I didn't think it would be that big.

This is the last of the governor's initiatives to dismantle government and get rid of entitlement spending for the less fortunate.

The (contractor) provider is increasingly having more authority on services they are going to provide.

The money is there; now we can only hope the will to do something for poor Floridians will follow.

It seems we might be a little more generous with the distribution of dollars when we're talking about $5.8 billion in new money this year.

The insurance and health-care industries are in business to make money. They obviously thought it might be beneficial to them to give to the party with all the changes taking place. Apparently Florida's ... Medicaid recipients didn't get their contributions in on time.