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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
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