US EditionFlorida Hasn’t Expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers Want To Add Work Requirements Anyway.
Florida lawmakers propose Medicaid work requirements targeting about 147,000 adults despite legal doubts and potential $80 million savings from coverage losses, critics warn of increased uninsured rates.
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Florida Lawmakers Aim to Add Work Requirements Without Expanding Medicaid
In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage. That’s not stopping Florida lawmakers from trying to adopt Medicaid work requirements anyway. It’s the only legislative body in a nonexpansion state to… Source
Florida Hasn’t Expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers Want To Add Work Requirements Anyway.
In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage. That’s not stopping Florida lawmakers from trying to adopt Medicaid work requirements anyway. It’s the only legislative body in a nonexpansion state to even consider it so far. “You need to go to work if you …
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