Medicaid expansion

Health care advocates gathered across Florida today — in Orlando, Tampa, Tallahassee, and Miami — calling on the state to accept federal funds and...

A coalition of businesses groups, local officials and healthcare industry representatives has rolled out a plan to insure nearly one million low-income...

When the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace opened last year, Beth and Doug Warner of St. Petersburg asked a navigator to enroll them. But they...

Democratic candidates were the only ones to show at a legislative forum organized by the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative. And each one said Florida...

Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this...

Florida looks to lose more federal money set aside for Medicaid than any state that has opted out of expanding the health care program for the poor,...

The Florida Medical Association's House of Delegates overwhelmingly adopted a resolution supporting Medicaid expansion to cover uninsured low-income...

All session long, Florida's legislative leaders have frustrated advocates for the poor, as well as much of the business community, by declining to talk...

Top Republicans in the Florida Legislature have shown little interest in expanding Medicaid in the state. Despite that, Democrats say they’ll keep...

The idea was that Medicaid would expand to include people not covered under the Affordable Care Act. But many states have chosen not to expand coverage, despite financial incentives from the federal government. That may leave millions of people without any health coverage at all.

About 45,000 low-income working parents in Florida will lose their Medicaid coverage at the end of this year and become uninsured unless they quit their…

In a media call Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services stressed that Florida can still choose to expand Medicaid under the…