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Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage: Key to Improving Maternal and Infant Health in Florida
Pregnancy Medicaid coverage in Florida ends 60 days postpartum. Yet ongoing coverage is critical to addressing the state's maternal health crisis.
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Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in Florida: The Case for Medicaid Expansion
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.
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Maternal Health in Florida: Poor Outcomes Made Worse by Lack of Medicaid Expansion
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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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Connecting the Dots
Medicaid expansion has been shown to increase health care coverage, which in turn leads to a host of gains in access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and reduced disparities.
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Do Florida Lawmakers know COVID-19 is a public health emergency? They're not acting like it | Opinion
FHJP's Miriam Harmatz & Alison Yager wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about Florida's need to expand Medicaid during the COVID pandemic 
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Medicaid could keep even more people healthy if Florida agreed to expand it | Opinion
FHJP Executive Director Miriam Harmatz wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald to commemorate Medicaid's 54th birthday.
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Medicare doesn't cover dental care. For many Florida seniors, that's a problem.
FHJP's Stories Project connected Sonia and Miguel with a Miami Herald reporter, who then wrote about the need for adding a dental benefit to Medicare.
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  • COVID-19 Testing & Treatment Resources For Uninsured Florida Residents | Read more here.
  • Did You Receive a Surprise Bill for COVID-19 Treatment? There may be help | Read more here.
  • ¿Ha Recibido Usted una Cuenta Inesperada del Hospital por Haber Recibido Tratamiento por COVID-19? Tal Vez Haya Ayuda| Lea más aquí.
  • Medicaid Home & Community Based Services (HCBS): Know Your Rights | Read more here.
  • Medicaid Home & Community Based Services (HCBS): ¡Conozca Sus Derechos! | Para más información
  • Florida Medicaid Applicants | Recipients: Know Your Rights During Covid-19 Emergency
  • Solicitantes | Destinatarios de Medicaid de Florida: Conozca sus Derechos Durante la Emergencia de Covid-19
  • Free and Low-Cost Health Care: Miami-Dade County (MDC) | Read more here.

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