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Opposition, Inaction and Obstruction: A History of Florida’s Failure to Pass Medicaid Expansion8/25/2021
The report documents the history of the Medicaid expansion efforts in the state of Florida. Read Report
Maternal health outcomes are getting worse, not better, and are marked by unacceptable racial disparities. Medicaid expansion has been shown to improve outcomes for mothers and babies. Florida cannot afford to ignore this opportunity.
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Decades of disinvestment in the state’s mental health care system has led to the institutionalization of the severely mentally ill in Florida prisons and jails, depriving individuals of essential care, and straining state and local budgets.
Read Report Expanding Medicaid: More Critical Than Ever for Older Floridians in the Time of Coronavirus5/26/2020
The State of COVID-19 in Florida and South Florida: An Early Look at Disparities in Outcomes5/8/2020
As the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to plague our nation, it has highlighted
existing structural inequities. Over the past few weeks, a number of reports, both in mainstream media and among policy analysts, have documented evidence of the disproportionate negative impact of COVID-19 on low-income communities of color. Florida, one of the nation’s most diverse states, and one of just 14 states that have not expanded Medicaid, is uniquely susceptible to health disparities amid the COVID-19 crisis. Do Florida lawmakers know COVID-19 is a public health emergency? They’re not acting like it3/15/2020
Expanding Medicaid, the public program that has for decades provided health insurance to millions of low-income individuals and families, is a central strategy to improving health outcomes and lowering costs for uninsured South Floridians. Florida is currently one of just 14 states that have not expanded Medicaid, leaving large numbers of low- income residents without health coverage, including over a million people in South Florida.
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The report provides a brief primer on Medicaid expansion under the ACA, touches upon its health and fiscal benefits, and concludes by discussing the number of potential beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion in the Miami metropolitan area and its component counties.
Read Report  FHJP Executive Director, Miriam Harmatz, collaborates with Medicaid Matters for Florida Coalition partners, Florida Voices for Health and Florida Policy Institute, on an op-ed in Florida Phoenix.
Read Article in Florida Phoenix  Alison Yager, FHJP's Director of Policy Advocacy, was interviewed by the Miami Herald and quoted in the article.
Read Article in Miami Herald FHJP Submits Public Comment on Florida's Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) Amendment Request9/26/2019
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