No. SB 348
Filed under Healthcare.
Statewide Health Care Coverage; Establishing the Task Force on Universal Health Care for a specified purpose; directing all agencies of state government to assist the task force, including furnishing information and advice deemed necessary by the task force; providing for the membership, meetings, and funding of the task force; requiring the task force to establish an advisory committee for a specified purpose; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop a plan for a Medicaid buy-in program or a public health care option for certain residents of this state, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,174,816
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEstablishes a 20-member task force to design a single-payer Health Care for All Florida Plan, to be run by a future state board and cover every resident from birth to death.
Separately, the Agency for Health Care Administration must draft its own plan for a Medicaid buy-in program or public option for residents who lack access to health care, reporting by May 1, 2027.
The task force must weigh funding sources, including an employer payroll tax and other progressive revenue options, and estimate the plan's costs and savings against the current system.
Both efforts move on a fixed clock: the task force reports by the first day of the 2028 legislative session, and the whole section repeals automatically on January 2, 2029.
AIThe task force must recommend the design of the Health Care for All Florida Plan, a single-payer system meant to cover every resident from birth to death, to be run by a new state board.
AIIndependent of the task force, the Agency for Health Care Administration must draft its own plan for a Medicaid buy-in program or public option aimed at residents who lack access to health care.
AIThe task force, its process, and AHCA's buy-in mandate all disappear automatically on this date unless the Legislature acts first to extend, replace, or enact what they recommend.
AIA nonrecurring general-revenue appropriation funds OPPAGA staff support and the task force's work for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, covering the design and reporting process created by this act.
AIAt least eight of the Governor's 13 appointees to the task force must be representatives of labor unions whose members work in health care, giving organized labor a guaranteed bloc on the panel.
AIThe recommended plan's design must allow a nonresident who works full time in Florida and contributes to the plan to enroll, along with that person's dependents, extending eligibility beyond state residents.
AIThe recommendations for the plan must require a patient or their designee to approve before the patient's medical data is forwarded to family, caregivers, other providers, or researchers.