Florida's U.S. Rep. Darren Soto in a news conference Friday slammed the Trump administration for its attempt to illegally defund programs in Central Florida and across the country. The Democrat spoke ...

Florida’s program offers subsidized insurance for children who are not eligible for Medicaid and whose household incomes are up to 210 percent of the federal poverty level. As an example, a family of ...

The state steered parents to that subsidized health insurance program, KidCare, if their children were no longer eligible for Medicaid. A federal rule requires states to keep children enrolled ...

There is no better example of this zealotry than Florida's refusal to expand eligibility for KidCare, the state's version of a health insurance program intended to cover the children of working ...

which operates in Florida as KidCare. The program provides low-cost health insurance to children whose families make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. In Florida, families have paid $15 or $ ...

The four years between Donald Trump’s first term in office and his second were marked by an extraordinary political shift in Florida. In January 2021, President Joe Biden entered the White House with ...

The agency filed a new lawsuit in the same federal court in Tampa on Tuesday, reasserting its claim that the rule a is preventing the state from its planned expansion of KidCare. “So this is a ...

The Jan. 2 letter is one of the latest maneuvers between CMS and the DeSantis administration over the Florida KidCare program. Less than a week after the letter was sent, Florida filed a new challenge ...

The contentious fight between Florida and the federal government over children’s health insurance continues to ratchet up even though President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from entering ...

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. district court in Tampa, challenges a rule that federal health officials finalized in November about the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which operates in ...

The lawsuit, filed Jan. 7 in U.S. district court in Tampa, challenges a rule that federal health officials finalized in November about the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which operates in ...

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. district court in Tampa, challenges a rule that federal health officials finalized in November about the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which operates in ...