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After Medicaid enrollment soared during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1 million Floridians likely will drop off the healthcare program in 2023.
MIAMI (AP) — More than three million Medicaid recipients around the state are transitioning into managed care under Florida's massive overhaul to privatize its Medicaid program. The change comes ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference in 2021. The state recently banned Medicaid use on gender-affirming treatments. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett ...
Over the coming years, Florida could strip up to 1.75 million people off its Medicaid rolls, as the federal government slowly reduces COVID-era support for expanded benefits. Last week committees i… ...
After years of opposition toward expanding Medicaid from Florida’s Republican leaders, a coalition is seeking to put it in the hands of voters on the 2026 ballot. The group, Florida Decides ...
Adults with dependent children can earn no more than 32% of the federal poverty level, or about $7,000 a year for a family of three, to qualify for Medicaid in Florida.
This isn’t the first effort to put Medicaid on the ballot, according to Holly Bullard of the Florida Policy Institute. “In 2019, we collected enough signatures to trigger a Supreme Court review of our ...
Medicaid expansion in Florida? ... That includes more than 400,000 who earn below the federal poverty level, according to the Florida Policy Institute, a Tallahassee nonprofit.
Congressional Democrats will seek to bypass Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP Florida lawmakers by expanding Medicaid in Florida, ... coverage to people making up to 138% of the federal poverty level.
Sign at a Medicaid expansion rally. By Janelle Irwin / WMNF News (Oct. 2013). By Jim Saunders ©2023 The News Service of Florida. TALLAHASSEE — After Medicaid enrollment soared during the first three ...