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Many working parents and families in Florida would benefit from closing the coverage gap
Many working parents and families in Florida would benefit from closing the coverage gap
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Alker, Joan, author
Chester, Alisa, author - Contributor(s):
- Kids Well Florida, issuing body.
Georgetown University. Center for Children and Families issuing body. - Publication:
- Washington, D.C., : Center for Children and Families, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University, April 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data
Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data
Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data
Florida
United States
United States. - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- (1) The Florida legislature is currently debating a bill to expand Medicaid to over one million low-income Floridians. In Florida, uninsured parents with children present in the home account for 28 percent of the population potentially eligible for health coverage if the state expands Medicaid. A significant coverage gap exists for parents whose income exceeds Florida's extremely low eligibility threshold for Medicaid but don't earn enough to receive tax credits for coverage through the federal health insurance marketplace. A parent in a family of three working more than 18 hours a week in a minimum wage job would earn too much to get Medicaid coverage under Florida's stringent guidelines. (2) Of those parents that could benefit from extended Medicaid eligibility, 63 percent are employed and many of them are in jobs supporting Florida's service based, tourist-dependent economy. Uninsured parents potentially eligible for Medicaid expansion are most likely to be white, between the ages of 26 to 49 years old and have one or two children. (3) Florida has some of the highest rates and numbers of uninsured children and parents in the nation. Providing health coverage to Florida's parents would reduce children's uninsured rate and enhance families' financial security. Experience from other states shows that an extremely effective way to reduce the uninsured rate for children is to extend coverage to parents so the whole family can get covered.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101676182 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101676182