FL Medicaid expansion could cover 1M more in Sunshine State

Business groups and individuals have proposed a "free market" solution to expand government-funded health care coverage to nearly 1 million Floridians. A coalition of business interests and private citizens, including some prominent Republicans, unveiled a plan Wednesday to accept federal dollars to extend publicly funded health care coverage to nearly a million Floridians — without calling it "Medicaid expansion," as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act. The plan, called A Healthy Florida Works, offers an alternative to the ACA model while proposing a politically viable path for Florida's Republican-controlled House of Representatives, an obstinate opponent of the health law, to extend coverage to more residents.