To Stay on Medicaid, You May Have To Start Working: Trump’s Decision Sparks Fury
Trump's decision to allow states to test a work requirement for adult Medicaid enrollees sparked criticism from doctors, advocates for the poor, and minority and disability rights groups. The post To...
View ArticleCritics Assail Scott Policy Shift That Would Reduce Eligibility Window For...
The majority of the 39,000 people impacted by the change would be seniors and people with disabilities. But Gov. Scott wants the shift to save nearly $100 million. The post Critics Assail Scott Policy...
View ArticleRed-Light Cameras, Guns, Pot, Tax Cuts: Rating the 2014 Legislative Session
Florida lawmakers ended the 2014 legislative session after passing a budget and a flurry of other bills dealing with issues such as child welfare and school vouchers. But hundreds of bills died as...
View ArticleFlorida Giving Up 63,800 Jobs By Rejecting Federal Medicaid Expansion
Florida has not accepted the offer of federal funds -- estimated at $51 billion over a decade -- provided in the Affordable Care Act to cover uninsured people who fall into a gap. Florida has about...
View ArticleFlorida Tries Again to End Decade-Old Lawsuit Calling State’s Children’s...
The state Agency for Health Care Administration is making a renewed attempt to scuttle a nearly decade-old lawsuit alleging the state's Medicaid program has not provided adequate care for low-income...
View ArticleWith 800,000 Floridians in Health Insurance Limbo, Hopes Return for Medicaid...
A coalition of businesses groups, local officials and healthcare industry representatives has rolled out a plan to insure nearly one million low-income Floridians who fall in the so-called Medicaid...
View ArticleMore States Lean Toward Medicaid Expansion, But Florida Remains a Holdout
The biggest nonexpansion states are Florida and Texas, where expansion would add a total of 2.6 million uninsured residents to the Medicaid rolls. But both the Florida and Texas legislatures are...
View ArticleFearing Loss of $1 Billion in Federal Aid, Senate Again Considers Medicaid...
Florida's budget faces an unexpected deficit. Accepting the federal Medicaid money could potentially offset the loss of the Low-Income Pool Funds. But the plan faces stiff opposition. The post Fearing...
View ArticlePlan to Extend Health Insurance to 800,000 Poor Floridians Crawls Against...
The new Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange Program, or FHIX, would assist Floridians not eligible for Medicaid in purchasing health benefits coverage and gaining access to health services....
View ArticleSpecial Session Ahead for Legislature as Lawmakers Fail To Resolve Budget Clash
Gov. Rick Scott's administration, federal officials and House and Senate leaders have waged a public war over health dollars, which President Obama's administration declared Tuesday are tied to an...
View ArticleGov. Bizarre: Scott Suing Federal Government Over One Pot of Money Even As He...
The lawsuit plays into a heated battle over a Senate plan to use $2.8 billion in Medicaid expansion funding to help lower-income Floridians purchase private health insurance. But the House and Scott...
View ArticleTennessee and Kansas Also Get Fed Warning to Florida: Expand Medicaid Or Risk...
The federal government confirmed that it gave officials in those states the same message delivered to Texas and Florida about the risk to funding for so-called “uncompensated care pools” — Medicaid...
View ArticleHouse and Senate Far Apart on Budget as Health Care For Poor Becomes...
The Florida House had made a significant concession to the Senate on hospital funding --- but said it would only follow through if the upper chamber dropped insistence on using Medicaid expansion...
View ArticleLegislators Set Special Session For June 1 But $2.2 Billion in Health Aid for...
Florida House and Senate leaders did not put out a list of topics that would be discussed during the special session, leaving room for disagreement over the final "call" that will be issued to...
View ArticleGov. Scott Seeks Court-Ordered Injunction Against Federal Government in...
Lawyers for the state asked Thursday for a federal judge to immediately bar the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from considering whether the state has expanded Medicaid as the agency...
View ArticleHow Health Care Blew Up the 2015 Session
Dramatic miscalculations and eagerness for showdown over health care derailed Florida lawmakers' plans in the 2015 legislative session--impulses they must guard against if the special session is to go...
View ArticleGov. Scott Stacks Hospital Panel Without a Single Hospital Expert in Overt Snub
Scott's commission is to make recommendations for a special legislative session on health funding scheduled to begin June 1, but it includes beef, housing, real estate, banking and hospitality experts,...
View ArticleRed-Light Cameras, Guns, Pot, Tax Cuts: Rating the 2014 Legislative Session
Florida lawmakers ended the 2014 legislative session after passing a budget and a flurry of other bills dealing with issues such as child welfare and school vouchers. But hundreds of bills died as...
View ArticleFlorida Giving Up 63,800 Jobs By Rejecting Federal Medicaid Expansion
Florida has not accepted the offer of federal funds -- estimated at $51 billion over a decade -- provided in the Affordable Care Act to cover uninsured people who fall into a gap. Florida has about...
View ArticleFlorida Tries Again to End Decade-Old Lawsuit Calling State’s Children’s...
The state Agency for Health Care Administration is making a renewed attempt to scuttle a nearly decade-old lawsuit alleging the state's Medicaid program has not provided adequate care for low-income...
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