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WHY ARE THOUSANDS OF FLORIDIANS LOSING HEALTH INSURANCE?


FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS REVERTS THE STATE’S MEDICAID SYSTEM TO
PRE-PANDEMIC STRUCTURE, LEAVING THOUSANDS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE.

Maite Knorr-Evans
Update: Jun 4th, 2023 14:08 EDT


SCOTT MORGANREUTERS

When the covid-19 pandemic took hold in the United States in early 2020, around
29.8 million people lacked access to health insurance —roughly nine percent of
the population.

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Stay-at-home orders and the economic disruptions caused by the pandemic created
unique challenges for the United States because, unlike countries where there is
a public healthcare system, most workers and their families receive their
insurance through their employers. So, when more than twenty million people were
stripped from the labor market in a matter of months, the federal government had
to figure out new ways to extend coverage to those who had lost it. The
Commonwealth Fund, a research non-profit that focuses on public health, found
that by June 2020, 7.7 million workers and 6.9 million of their dependents had
lost coverage.

One of the actions taken by Congress was to reduce the burden for many of those
impacted to enroll in Medicaid. Typically the process of enrolling in Medicaid
requires a strict verification process, but the CARES Act, passed in March 2020,
provided additional funds to states that removed these requirements. However,
now that the public health emergency has officially ended, those additional
funds will end, and some states, like Florida, have decided that they will allow
thousands to lose their insurance.





HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD LOSE COVERAGE IN THE STATE?

In 2018, a third of Florida’s population lived on an income that was two-hundred
percent below the federal poverty line, and 16.3 percent were uninsured. The
Florida Department of Children and Families reported that between March 2020 and
November 2022, the number of residents enrolled in Medicaid rose from 3.8
million to 5.5 million.

Now that the public health emergency has ended, the agency has said they will
begin to “follow federal guidance to restore Medicaid eligibility through normal
processing while working to ensure eligible recipients remain enrolled.” This
process will take up to a year, and the department promises to “notify and
communicate to all current Medicaid recipients their redetermination timeframes
and next steps.”

The state has not made clear how many of the 1.7 million people who enrolled in
Medicaid during the pandemic will lose their health insurance. To date, overall
enrollment in Medicaid has actually increased slightly (5.73 million in March
vs. 5.78 million in April). Nevertheless, in April, KFF reported that the state
reviewed the coverage of roughly 461,000 residents, and more than half (54
percent) were disenrolled.





WHO QUALIFIES FOR MEDICAID IN FLORIDA?

Florida is one of a dozen states who has not expanded access to Medicaid under
the Affordable Care Act. At a baseline, Medicaid is offered to residents with
very low incomes and who are either pregnant, in the care of a dependent under
eighteen, blind or living with a family member with a disability, or over the
age of sixty-five.

IMMIGRATION


NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IN FLORIDA: WHEN DOES IT TAKE EFFECT?

There are only a few weeks left before the new immigration law goes into effect
in Florida. The legislation will affect undocumented immigrants.

POLITICS


A THIRD OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS OPPOSE DEBT CEILING INCREASE

The bill to raise the debt ceiling pass the House with a vote tally of 314 to
117 with more Republicans opposed than Democrats to Speaker McCarthy’s deal.

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