medicaid expansion

A new coalition combining local business and health care groups is pushing a plan to insure more than a million Floridians who currently fall in the…

For the past two years, Florida’s top state lawmakers have opposed expanding the Medicaid program for low-income people under the federal health law. The…

Nearly a million Floridians have gained insurance though federal exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act. Many of those people are seeing big savings…

Florida has stood on the sidelines for more than a year as other states have taken the federal government up on its offer to provide more funding if more…

Tampa Bay resident Victoria Stout is 57. She’s self-employed, healthy, works odd jobs, and is uninsured. She’s been without health insurance most of her…

Florida legislative leaders are downplaying an article in London’s Guardian newspaper that says the state is in talks to expand Medicaid. The article…

A new study concludes, Florida taxpayers will be footing the bill for mentally ill patients after the Legislature rejected Medicaid expansion under the…

Who won during the 2013 legislative session? Teachers and state workers won. They’re getting pay raises. Democrats helped kill a controversial bill giving…

The question of whether Florida would expand its Medicaid program to cover more low-income people has been answered, and it’s a “no” -- at least for now.…

Tempers were short. Emotions were high. Lawmakers were tired. A bad combination for a 96-page bill that included a strike-all amendment in it delivering…