{"id":144538,"date":"2026-02-05T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:09","slug":"floridians-push-florida-legislature-to-expand-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144538\/","title":{"rendered":"Floridians push Florida Legislature to expand Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Dozens of people are urging state lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This comes as the effort to get Medicaid expansion on the 2028 ballot is relaunching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida Decides Healthcare is the organization sending out statewide digital and physical petitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the organization, its proposal would bring Medicaid <a href=\"https:\/\/floridadecideshealthcare.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridadecideshealthcare.org\/\">eligibility <\/a>to people who earn less than 138% of the federal poverty level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More Florida politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Advocates expressed worry about several bills that lawmakers are considering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SB1758 would require people to meet certain work and community engagement requirements to maintain Medicaid coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Representative Angie Nixon explained how current legislation will make affordable healthcare more difficult to access <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRequirements that don\u2019t help people get healthier or more stable,\u201d Nixon said. \u201dInstead, they push working Floridians, caregivers, people with disabilities, seniors straight into the coverage gap. That\u2019s not reform, it\u2019s actually bad policy with real consequences on our people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill was heard for the first time in the Senate this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Dozens of people are urging state lawmakers to expand Medicaid access. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[70061,22461,18523,8601,10745,100,8853,116,13120,4214,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-144538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-2028-ballot","tag-access","tag-angie-nixon","tag-capitol","tag-expansion","tag-florida-legislature","tag-floridians","tag-jacksonville","tag-medicaid","tag-senate","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}