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Florida Amendment 4 [1] was a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which failed on November 5, 2024. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Through a statewide referendum , the amendment achieved 57% support among voters in the U.S. state of Florida , short of the 60% supermajority required by law.
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
By contrast, New York’s low-risk C-section rate was 28% in 2019, according to the March of Dimes, which noted the rates in many states, including New York and California, increased during the ...
Ballot measures can institute constitutional amendments but not new laws, and require over 760,000 signatures to take to ballot and a 60% vote to pass. [35] The Project is the primary financial backer for local group Florida Decides Healthcare ($380,000 as of June 2019), [ 36 ] enabling a first-stage target of 76,000 signatures to be met.
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
Medicaid.gov, Medicaid State Plan Amendments, accessed Jan. 31, 2024 National Academy for State Health Policy, State Efforts to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage , Feb. 1, 2024
Florida Amendment 4: abortion rights Amendment 4 failed, with only 57.1% of the votes in favor. It would have restored allowing abortion in Florida up to "fetal viability," usually around 24 weeks.
2022 Florida Amendment 3 was a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution, which failed on November 8, 2022.Through a statewide referendum, the amendment achieved only 58.7% support among voters in the U.S. state of Florida, short of the 60% majority required by state law, [1] although higher than the 2006 amendment which created the 60% requirement.