The STORIES
Medicaid Expansion
When her youngest son turned 18, Rosaline was left without access to affordable healthcare and thousands of dollars in debt for emergency room visits.
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Medicaid | The Lived Experience
Foster children are entitled to healthcare - Medicaid - until age 26 in Florida. But, no one told Japheth. He found himself with thousands of dollars in medical debt and went without proper care for serious medical conditions until now.
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Elder Health
When Antonia goes to the dentist for the maintenance care that she needs, she is turned away. It is always the same response: “Your insurance does not cover dental care.”
Long-Term Care
After a stroke, Shirley cannot even get out of bed without the use of a special lift, which requires trained aides to operate. And while Medicaid home health aides take care of her during the week, moving her from her bed to a wheel chair, her managed care plan stopped sending aides on the weekend. She has been forced to spend entire weekends in her bed.
Immigrant Health
“I have been an educator for over 13 years, and I know the important role that education has in the lives of immigrant families and their children. When they are healthy, children can be in the classroom, and that is where great things can happen!”
Floridians Impacted By COVID-19
Before Covid-19 hit Central Florida, Michael Smith scraped together a living running his own small business. He doesn’t have health insurance but has medical needs, including asthma he manages on his own.
Share Your Story
Join us in working for health justice in Florida. Let your voice be heard! Please contact us if you or a family member need health care and are:
- An uninsured Floridian between the ages of 50-64.
- A low-income worker.
- A parent of a minor child.
- A pregnant woman.
- Someone struggling with injury or illness, including mental illness.
- A senior struggling to remain at home and out of a nursing home.
- A person who has benefited from being on Medicaid , or had a family member who has benefited.
Sharing your story --in your words and your voice-- is essential. Together we'll make the case that everyone should have affordable accessible health care.
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