Its a program for lowincome and disadvantaged people. It covers children, the elderly, the handicapped and so on. I was born with a rare medical syndrome, and im going to need those services because my syndromes not going to go away and its not going to be healed, so i really want to learn more about this topic. I hope you do, too, because on april 1st, iowa joined 39 other states and the district of columbia by switching from a gov delivering Healthcare Services to more than half a million. I think its 580,000 iowans to private management care. Thats called an mco, and well learn more about that in a minute. Governor branstads plan and its implementatio n was said by many newspapers and different advocates to be a very aggressive plan and happening rapidly compared to some of the other branstad said in his first report on it that it was going smoothly and that he hoped things would continue to run smoothly while we saved taxpayers money, which is a great idea. However, a majority of i