Nearly one million hardworking low-income Floridians would gain coverage through Medicaid expansion. Instead, since the state legislature hasn't passed expansion, Floridians are being put in the impossible position of finding creative solutions for health care. Whether its crowdsourcing money and supplies, or rationing food and medicine. And even where local governments are doing their best to establish safety-net programs, inevitably people fall through the holes of that net.

Hardworking Floridians, mostly working in the industries that are the backbone of Florida’s economy (like food service, hospitality, retail and construction), are having to inherit all the risk without the security of coverage.

Now Congress is moving forward a budget proposal that would close the coverage gap in non-expansion states. That means it is important that we continue to speak out and reach out THROUGH OCT 1 to Members of Congress about the direct coverage option and people caught in the coverage gap in non-expansion states.

Urge members of the House Committee on the Budget to include closing the coverage gap in the House budget resolution.