Miami Herald
By: Daniel Chang and Tony Pugh
The American Health Care Act bill proposed by the House Republicans to replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act will severely affect Florida, because 4.3 million of Florida’s residents depend on Medicaid – and the bill intends to take those benefits away. This is so because the bill will put a spending limit for each American enrolled in Medicaid as of 2019, and if they go over that spending limit, the state’s expenses will have to take care of it.
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That’s a problem for Florida, said Joan Alker, a researcher and Medicaid expert with Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, because the state could become a victim of its own success at cutting program spending over the years.
“Florida should be especially worried about the caps,” Alker said during a teleconference hosted by the Florida Philanthropic Network, a Tampa-based nonprofit and advocate of health insurance coverage expansion. (Joan is quoted throughout)
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