State of Florida: Affordable Care Act (ACA) Implementation
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to extend healthcare coverage to more Americans, ideally to cover all Americans. Yet the passage of the bill was relatively turbulent, and resulted in a somewhat inconsistent implementation of its fundamentals on a state-by-state basis. Before the ACA, the state of Florida had one of the highest uninsured rates in the nation and after the implementation of the ACA and the healthcare exchange, “the uninsured rate has reportedly dropped from around 20% in 2013 to 15.2% in 2015,” although this rate is still higher than the national average of uninsured persons (Born, 2017, p.3). Florida is one of the states that has elected to have its citizens research and obtain healthcare coverage on the national exchange, rather than implement a state-specific healthcare exchange. As noted by Norris (2018), using the most recent data available, Florida has the highest percentage of enrollees on the government exchange, an indication that a very low percentage of the state is able to obtain healthcare insurance through their employers, even when they do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare—14.6% of all individuals enrolled in healthcare insurance programs purchased on the ACA website are in Florida.
It should be noted that fewer Floridians enrolled in ACA coverage on the national exchange in 2018 versus 2017, perhaps due to the less aggressive advertising for the healthcare exchange deadlines by the Trump Administration. The current administration initially vowed to gut or repeal the bill. It has since largely let the ACA languish rather than aggressively attempt to repeal it, although there have recently been a number of legal challenges to undercut its provisions, most notably the individual mandate demanding all Americans have some sort of healthcare coverage or pay a penalty (with some exceptions).
But Florida, if anything, is even more committed to the provisions of the bill than ever before, given that the Department of Health and Human Services deemed that residents affected by Hurricane Irma located in a FEMA-approved disaster area would have an extended enrollment period until March 31, 2018 last year (Norris, 2018). As a result of Irma, the entire state was classified as eligible for assistance, due to weather-related effects (Norris, 2018). Thus, the state’s unusually pervasive need for healthcare has been federally recognized, despite the current Administration’s hostility to the...
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