Health Health Care Medical Mysteries Science Well+Being A tale of two states: Arizona and Florida diverge on expanding kids’ health insurance Both want to expand Children’s Health...
more kids but experts expect many states to start new, separate insurance plans for children. A few states have already begun such programs; NPR's Vicky Que reports on Florida's program...
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The majority of Americans had health insurance in 2023. Yet despite long-term gains, the rate of children who lacked coverage crept up, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Ninety-two percent of U.S. adults were insured in 2023, according to “Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2023,” one in a series of bureau reports released in September. The rate of adults who lacked insurance held steady at about 8% —approximately 26.4 million people. The uninsured rate for ch...
Florida Politics Nearly 600K Florida kids lost government health insurance last year, study says By Alexandra Glorioso Updated May 03, 2024 7:00 PMTallahassee Nearly 600,000 Florida...
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in December. Florida accounts for 14% of the total 4.16 million decline in child Medicaid and CHIP enrollment across the nation, per the Center's...
Florida is unlikely to expand Medicaid this year, as North Carolina and other Republican states have done recently, but lawmakers are pushing measures they say will expand health care for more children from low-income families. About $76 million has been set aside in the House’s proposed budget to incentivize more pediatricians to treat children on Medicaid. And a bill progressing through the Legislature will expand the number of families eligible for subsidized child health insurance programs. ...
TALLAHASSEE — Nearly 600,000 Florida children lost their government-provided health insurance last year after the federal government ended the national COVID-related health emergency, more than any other state except Texas, according to a newly released report by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. The report, a national study of how states shed children from Medicaid after the federal government lifted a hold that blocked them from dropping these patients during the pandemic, found that Florida lost 589,671 children in state-run ...
Families who have children in the Florida Healthy Kids health insurance program in Brevard County will be able to skip a month or two of premiums, under a plan approved by the organization's board of directors. It's part of a financial and administrative relief for Florida families in areas impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. These relief measures apply to families living in Brevard and 51 other Florida counties currently designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as eligible for individual assistance from the storms. ...
460,000 kids have lost Medicaid coverage. Only about 49,000 have successfully migrated to Florida KidCare, the state’s Children's Health Insurance Program, also known as CHIP. It is...