Jennifer Tolbert, associate director of KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured.īetween the Panhandle and the Gulf of Mexico is where Apalachicola River meets the ocean creating a bay known for oysters.

Stephanie Colombini, covers health care for WUSF and the statewide journalism collaborative Health News Florida.

Joe Mario Petersen, health reporter for WMFE in Orlando.

It’s a process that goes by the word 're-determination.' As a result, around 260,000 children have been disenrolled from Medicaid across the state. The pandemic money allowed people to stay enrolled even if they no longer met the income requirements.īut with the public health emergency over, and the federal government’s budget approval last year, the rule requiring states to keep people enrolled in the program ended.

That’s the program that provides health care to low-income adults and children. Jessica Cattelino, author of “High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty.”Īs the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold in the spring of 2020, the federal government sent billions of dollars to states to keep people enrolled in Medicaid.John Sowinski, president of the group No Casinos Inc.Daniel Wallach, founder of Wallach Legal, a law firm in Hallandale Beach focused on gambling laws.The journey to online sports betting in Florida has taken years. It plans to offer in-person sports betting at its six Florida casinos in early December. The Seminole Tribe relaunched its sports betting app to a limited group of people this month. Florida is far from the first state to have legal sports betting.

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