Florida
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Texas, Florida & California are Home to 37% of Eligible but Uninsured Kids
Today, the Urban Institute released an update to last year’s report on Medicaid/CHIP participation rates for children. Since 2008, Medicaid/CHIP participation rates have increased by 5.5 percentage points, from 81.7% in 2008 to 87.2% in 2011. Statistically significant increases have taken place in each of the last three years. States have had great success…
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Census Shows Uninsured Rate Declines for Children; Poverty Up in Southern Region
The U.S. Census data released today held some good news on the health coverage of America’s children and families. While poverty remained unacceptably high, the rate of uninsured children continued to decline. The uninsured rate for children declined from 9.4 percent in 2011 to 8.9 percent in 2012. This is mainly due to the success…
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Florida Fails to Act on Medicaid Option
Thanks to the strong effort by so many different organizations in Florida, the state almost overcame ideological opposition to accepting federal funding for covering more uninsured Floridians through Medicaid. It is disappointing that ideology trumped pragmatism in the end as the Florida House of Representatives insisted on holding the health and well-being of Florida families…
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Florida’s Decision on Accepting Medicaid Funding Will Impact Employers
By Leah Barber-Heinz, Florida CHAIN Accepting federal funding to extend Medicaid coverage to one million uninsured, working Floridians makes good sense for Florida’s businesses. First, businesses rely on healthy workers to show up and keep their businesses going. Workers rely on affordable coverage to keep themselves and their families healthy. Accepting federal funding to connect…
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Florida Medicaid Expansion – Not Dead Yet
Yesterday, the Florida Senate Select Committee on PPACA voted against a Florida Medicaid expansion on a straight party line vote – a surprise to some since a few Republicans on the committee, including Chairman Negron, had indicated that they were interested in moving forward. Many media sources are reporting that the Medicaid expansion is all…
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Florida’s Failure to Accept Federal Funding to Expand Medicaid Would Create Coverage Gap
CCF’s Co-Executive Director Joan Alker was in Florida today testifying on the Florida Medicaid expansion before the Senate Select Committee on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Joan has spent ten years researching Florida’s Medicaid program and released a report in November assessing Florida’s Medicaid choice so the committee wanted to hear from her.…
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Florida’s Medicaid Choice Under the ACA
These slides were used in Joan Alker’s testimony to the Senate Select Committee on PPACA in Tallahassee, FL.
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States Warming Up to Medicaid Option
By Tara Mancini As we reach the dead of winter, throughout the country there seems to be little thaw in opposition to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid option. This week, there was a flurry of activity by governors and legislators warming up to the Medicaid expansion option. This week it is getting especially hot; within…
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Getting Into Gear for 2014: Findings from a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2012-2013
As 2013 begins, implementation of the major provisions of the ACA, including its coverage expansions, is less than a year away. Following the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the ACA and the 2012 elections, efforts to prepare for 2014 are moving into high gear in many states. The majority of states are capitalizing on web-based…
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CMS Announces 2013 Plans for Connecting Kids to Coverage
CMS has announced plans for continuing its efforts to engage states and stakeholders in its “Connecting Kids to Coverage” Campaign. The re-energized outreach and marketing campaign will include new toolkits, trainings/webinars, organizational and corporate partnership outreach support, earned media support and expertise in reaching key audiences. While efforts will be ongoing, the campaign will also…
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New Report Adds Insights to Debate on Whether Florida Should Exercise Medicaid Option
Governor Rick Scott of Florida, famously a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act, recently signaled a new willingness to join the conversation on how to put the law to work for Florida families. Today, we are releasing a report that will help give those engaged in the conversation some sound data and research to help guide…
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Florida’s Medicaid Choice: Understanding Implications of Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Health Care Act
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute researchers estimate that 800,000 to 1.3 million uninsured Floridians would gain health coverage with no net cost to the state if Florida chose to exercise the option to extend Medicaid coverage to residents with incomes at or below 133% FPL as provided under the Affordable Care Act. Moreover, the researchers estimate…
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Florida’s Medicaid Choice Slides
View the report here. View the press release here. Georgetown University Health Policy Institute researchers estimate that 800,000 to 1.3 million uninsured Floridians would gain health coverage with no net cost to the state if Florida chose to exercise the option to extend Medicaid coverage to residents with incomes at or below 133% FPL as provided…
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More Children Have Health Insurance Thanks to Medicaid, CHIP and ACA
Today we released a report with some encouraging news for America’s children and families. Our report found that despite the fact that childhood poverty remained high, the number of uninsured children declined last year. This builds on the good news on young adult coverage gains reported in September. The Affordable Care Act was behind the young…
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Uninsured Children 2009-2011: Charting the Nation’s Progress
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families researchers analyzed health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey to get a closer look at children’s coverage trends. The authors found that the nation continues to make steady progress covering children, despite no reduction in the number of children living in poverty. A strong commitment to…
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State Fact Sheets Highlight Importance of Medicaid Coverage for Children
By Ielnaz Kashefipour, American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics, in partnership with the Children’s Hospitals Association (formerly NACHRI), this week produced updated state-by-state fact sheets that explain the importance of the Medicaid program for children. These fact sheets are used in federal and state advocacy efforts to protect the Medicaid program from…
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Video Advocacy from Coast to Coast
By Adam Searing, North Carolina Justice Center Editor’s Note: As many of you who attended our recent conference know, our friends at NC Justice Center have hit the road to promote the use of video advocacy among advocates across the country. Adam Searing returns to Say Ahh! to share the latest and greatest. Be sure…
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Medicaid Coverage for Parents under the Affordable Care Act – State Fact Sheets
This issue brief presents national estimates of the number and characteristics of uninsured parents who would be eligible for Medicaid in 2014 according to whether they have child who is currently enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP coverage or an uninsured child who is eligible for Medicaid/CHIP but not enrolled. State-specific data are also provided on the ten…
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Medicaid Coverage for Parents under the Affordable Care Act
This issue brief presents national estimates of the number and characteristics of uninsured parents who would be eligible for Medicaid in 2014 according to whether they have child who is currently enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP coverage or an uninsured child who is eligible for Medicaid/CHIP but not enrolled. State-specific data are also provided on the ten…
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Holding Insurers Accountable: Should We Add an MLR to Medicaid?
A hot issue in many states today is whether or not to move more Medicaid beneficiaries, and often very vulnerable beneficiaries, into managed care. Indeed, many managed care companies are interested in getting or keeping a foot in the Medicaid market given the expansion of Medicaid coming in 2014. And many, though not all, states are…