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STORIES
- Florida Health Justice STORIES
Over 400,000 low-income Floridians have no pathway to affordable health coverage because our state has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
The people who serve our communities every day--waitresses, home health aides, construction workers--go without the health care they need while our tax dollars to cover them sit in Washington D.C.
Your stories have the power to change that.
This Week's Story
Rebecca
Homestead, Florida
Rebecca lost her health insurance when she was laid off from her technical support job in May 2019.
Her income from working part-time for her family's dry cleaning business is too little to qualify for a subsidy in the health care marketplace.
What Is Florida's Health Care Coverage Gap?
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