Medicaid expansion

On June 22, consumer-health groups across the nation will launch what they hope will be a massive education and enrollment campaign to find uninsured…

At 7 a.m. on a Monday morning, poor people who don’t qualify for government health programs such as Medicaid are lined up outside a health department…

State Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Jacksonville, says the debate over how exactly to implement the Affordable Care Act in Florida is far from over. "There's going…

During the 2013 legislative session, Florida lawmakers were unable to agree on a plan to expand health care coverage for more low-income Floridians.…

State lawmakers wrapped up the session less than two weeks ago and many have taken to the public circuit explaining their votes.Eight members of the…

It appears increasingly likely that the legislative session will end on Friday without agreement to accept more than $50 billion in federal funds to cover…

Lawmakers in the Florida Senate voted 38 to 1 to pass the bill to create the Healthy Florida plan, state Sen. Joe Negron's alternative to Medicaid…

The Florida Senate is scheduled to vote on state Sen. Joe Negron's Healthy Florida plan on Tuesday, which would accept billions of dollars in federal…

State Sen. Aaron Bean's bare-bones Florida Health Choices Plus plan is no longer an alternative to Medicaid expansion in Florida.An amendment presented by…

By a 71 to 45 vote, the Florida House of Representatives on Friday passed its own health plan, which relies on state money and bypasses more than $50…

Lawmakers in the Florida House have rejected an amendment that would have used federal funds to provide health insurance coverage to 1.1 million uninsured…

The hottest issue of this legislative session has been the question “Will Florida take $50 billion in federal Medicaid funds to cover over 1 million…