Iowa’s privatized Medicaid system continues to face enormous problems

: Efforts by conservatives to privatize health care for low-income people have led to crises in care delivery in Iowa and Kansas. Iowa’s privatized Medicaid system continues to face enormous problems “as over 200,000 Iowans are being forced to switch companies that manage their health care in less than 30 days. The huge change comes after AmeriHealth Caritas, one of the three for-profit companies managing Medicaid privatization, announced it was withdrawing from Iowa on December 1 after losing hundreds of millions in Iowa during the last year and a half. Currently, AmeriHealth manages the health care of nearly 215,000 Iowans.” Public service unions warned that this would happen before Iowa Republicans forced through the changes.