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2025 Florida Snapshot
The Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were selected […]
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A survey of more than 1,300 Florida adults, conducted from May 3 to May 23, 2023, found that: Altarum’s Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey (CHESS) is designed to elicit respondents’ unbiased views on a wide range of health system issues, including confidence using the health system, financial burden and views on fixes that might be […]
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The Health Care Value Hub’s 2026 Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders with a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The Snapshot explores policies impacting health care affordability across four domains: Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact health care affordability or access to […]
Read MoreFlorida Snapshot 2024
The 2024 Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were […]
Read MoreNearly 30 Percent of Florida Residents Can’t Afford to See Doctors When Needed
Florida adults can’t afford to see a doctor when need to, reports Florida Phoenix. Florida has some of the highest rates of people skipped medical visits due to cost; Florida also has one of the highest rates of uninsured persons.
Read MoreFDA to Allow Florida to Import Prescription Drugs from Florida
The FDA will allow the state of Florida to import certain prescription drugs from Canda to lower drugs prices, reports KFF. The program has been authorized for a period of two years and during its first year is estimated to save over $183 million. Imported drugs will only be available to those that receive Medicaid, care […]
Read MoreFlorida Residents Worried about High Drug Costs; Support a Range of Government Solutions
According to a survey of more than 1,300 Florida adults, conducted from May 3 to May 23, 2023, respondents are concerned about prescription drug costs and express a strong desire for policymakers to enact solutions. More than half (53%) of survey respondents reported being somewhat or very worried about affording the cost of prescription drugs. […]
Read MoreFlorida Residents Struggle to Afford High Health Care Costs Particularly in Rural Regions
According to a survey of Florida adults, conducted from May 3 to May 23, 2023, respondents living in rural areas of Florida experience greater health care affordability burdens than those living in non-rural areas of the state. Seven out of ten Florida adults living in rural counties (70%) experienced one or more of the following […]
Read MoreFlorida Residents Struggle to Afford High Health Care Costs; Worry about Affording Health Care in the Future; Support Government Action Across Party Lines
Key Findings A survey of more than 1,300 Florida adults, conducted from May 3 to May 23, 2023, found that: A Range of Healthcare Affordability Burdens Like many Americans, Florida adults experience hardship due to high health care costs. All told, well over half (63%) of respondents experienced one or more of the following health […]
Read MoreFlorida Health Care Affordability: A Closer Look
This report, “Florida Health Care Affordability: A Closer Look”, based on the Health Care Value Hub’s 2022 Healthcare Affordability State Policy Scorecard (the “Scorecard”), examines the landscape of Florida’s health care affordability policies across several key domains: This report provides an in-depth analysis of health care affordability in Florida, examining the factors that contribute to […]
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