Nearly half-a-million children in Florida have lost Medicaid coverage over the past year, after the DeSantis administration and Florida Republican lawmakers chose to not extend Medicaid coverage as the COVID pandemic was declared officially over. Florida reportedly is the only state in the nation to not adopt the Biden administration’s strategies to “minimize terminations for procedural reasons.” Thousands of children on Easter Sunday lost coverage, NBC6 reported. “Florida has dropped over 1.3 million people, including 460,000 children, from its state Medicaid program since April 1, 2023, afte…
