• Two Florida state agencies are being sued in Jacksonville federal court over the state’s Medicaid redetermination process, with the plaintiffs claiming that the agencies are providing inadequate and confusing notifications about the end of their public health insurance. ABC News
• The class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday by two consumer advocacy groups – the Florida Justice Project and the National Health Law Program – on behalf of three Florida residents. This is the first such lawsuit against a state amid widespread unwinding of Medicaid coverage. Associated Press (LR: 3 CP: 5)
• The residents, a 25-year-old woman and her two infant children, argue that notices from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration and Department of Children and Families (DCF) are confusing and don’t sufficiently explain the reasoning behind termination of their coverage. CNN (LR: 2 CP: 5)
• Since Congress ended the COVID-19 pandemic emergency period – which prohibited states from removing individuals from their Medicaid rolls – more than 5.2M people across 45 states have been disenrolled. NPR Online News (LR: 3 CP: 5)
• Florida has removed more than 400K people from its Medicaid rolls, with half being disenrolled for “procedural reasons,” including missing or incorrect paperwork. AOL

Republican narrative:

• The pandemic “emergency” went on for too long and enabled the government to concentrate an unjustified amount of control as well as hoard taxpayer dollars. There was never a rational reason for the decision to extend government subsidies of healthcare for three years. It’s right that power has been returned to the states to determine, and now to redetermine, who will receive taxpayer-funded care.
  The Heritage Foundation

Democratic narrative:

• Republicans claim they’re being fiscally responsible by kicking millions of Americans off their Medicaid roles, but they’re just being inhumane to score political points. Many people, including children, are relying on Medicaid programs that they are now inexplicably being excluded from, but the GOP doesn’t seem to care as long as it's scoring well in the polls.
  MSNBC (LR: 1 CP: 5)

Nerd narrative:

• There's a 50% chance that at least 23.3% of US GDP will be spent on healthcare in 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
  Metaculus (LR: 3 CP: 3)