Medicaid Expansion

Reports and Publications

Making the Case for Medicaid Expansion

Connecting the Dots: How Medicaid Expansion will Improve Public Health, Increase Financial Stability, and Lessen Disparities in South Florida

Health Equity & Florida Medicaid Expansion: Bending the Arc at Home

Opposition, Inaction and Obstruction:
A History of Florida's Failure to Pass Medicaid Expansion

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Medicaid Expansion as Economic Stimulus: Impact on Florida's Economy

Impact of Non-Expansion on Specific Populations

Florida Medicare Recipients:
Learn Why Medicaid Expansion is Important for You

Florida LGBT Health Care: Specific Challenges and Potential Impact of Medicaid Expansion

Expanding Medicaid: More Critical Than Ever for Older Floridians in the Time of Coronavirus

Maternal Health in Florida: Poor Outcomes Made Worse by Lack of Medicaid Expansion

Mental Illness & Criminal Justice in Florida: The Case for Medicaid Expansion

Stacey
Stacey Tabacco and her family are living on the edge, hanging on to their family’s Medicaid health insurance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, living in fear of losing the healthcare that keeps them alive. Read more

Angeline
Angeline is a fifty-one-year-old United States citizen who suffers from serious health conditions, which routine treatments have not been able to relieve. Without Medicaid, Angeline lacks the privacy, stability, and continuity of care she greatly desires. Read more

Jorge
Jorge F., 51, had never had to navigate safety net programs to pay his bills or depend on food stamps to buy groceries. He didn’t know how to get help after the COVID-19 crisis that cost him his job at a local events company. Read more

Presentations and Trainings

"Coverage Gap" Press Conference to call for Medicaid Expansion:
Commissioner Levine Cava joins Medicaid Coalition, Calls on State Lawmakers to Expand Medicaid and Save Lives.

Southerners for Medicaid Expansion:
FHJP's Alison Yager Presents on the Intersection of Mental Health and Criminal Justice and the Need for Expansion in Florida

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Videos

FHJP Voices in the News

FHJP's Miriam Harmatz's Op-Ed in the Miami Herald to Commemorate Medicaid's 54th Birthday | Read Article Here

WLRN article featuring FHJP's Alison Yager and Board Member Dr. Zinzi Bailey: Why Expanding Medicaid Eligibility Could Help Florida Insure More People And Boost COVID-19 Vaccination Rates | Read Article Here

FHJP's Miriam Harmatz's Op-Ed in the Miami Herald on the necessity of expanding Medicaid in the face of the coronavirus pandemic | Read Article Here

FHJP's Alison Yager quoted in the the Miami Herald. | Read Article Here

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