FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Marne Harvich of Orange Park runs a Facebook group for Florida parents like herself who count on Medicaid as health insurance for their children. Though Harvich and her husband work, their income doesn’t cover the high cost of medical care their daughter on a ventilator requires.
For the last three years during the pandemic, Harvich’s daughter Cassidy and other children were protected by a federal law that allowed everyone to stay on Medicaid regardless of whether their households continued to be eligible. But on April 1, that changes and terminations will begin.
Florida is about to experience an unprecedented unwinding of Medicaid coverage that could leave more than a million families at risk of losing their free health insurance.
