Ron DeSantis Kicks Sick Children Off Medicaid

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/23/06/52251749046_10a44acfca_z.jpg" //divpHundreds of thousands of poor Floridians have been kicked off Medicaid in recent weeks as their Republican governor, a href="https://www.commondreams.org/tag/ron-desantis"Ron DeSantis/a, travels the country for his 2024 presidential bid and rakes in campaign cash from big donors.br//br//p

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Florida is one of more than a dozen states that have begun unwinding a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/unwinding-the-medicaid-continuous-coverage-requirement" target="_blank"pandemic-era rules/a barring states from removing people from Medicaid during the public health emergency. Late last year, Congress a href="https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2022/12/20/medicaid-unwinding-will-begin-in-april-but-theres-good-news-in-congressional-funding-agreement/" target="_blank"reached a bipartisan deal/a to end the so-called continuous coverage requirements, opening the door to a massive purge of the a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-expansion-has-saved-at-least-19000-lives-new-research-finds" target="_blank"lifesaving/a healthcare program.

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A dozen states have released early data on the number of people removed from Medicaid as they restart eligibility checks, a a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid" target="_blank"cumbersome process/a that many people ultimately fail to navigate. /ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-kicks-sick-children-medicaid" target="_blank"read more/a/p