Lynn Hatter, WFSU

Florida House Panel Opposes Medicaid Expansion

KFF Health News Original

The Florida House of Representatives has signaled it won’t go along with Gov. Rick Scott to expand Medicaid coverage to more than a million low-income Floridians under the Affordable Care Act. The party-line vote came Monday shortly after a joint committee hearing on the law’s financial impact on the state. Under the federal health care […]

Florida Eyeing Cuts To Medicaid

KFF Health News Original

The response of Gov. Rick Scott’s administration to the soaring cost of Medicaid is drawing fire from hospitals, and HHS may refuse to approve the plan.