Diagnosis for 3.27.24: Checking the pulse of Florida health care news and policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : If approved by voters, one of the proposed constitutional amendments would allow the sale and possession of recreational marijuana, a move that would rapidly be embraced by the state's already established medical marijuana industry.
61% : ""Gov. DeSantis receives bill giving state regulatory control over food delivery app" via AG Gancarski of Florida Politics -- Tallahassee may have something to say about what happens when you order food from popular delivery apps soon.
57% : That clause has been cited by the state Supreme Court when it struck down previous abortion laws passed by the Legislature.
55% : According to AHCA, there were 4,806,358 people enrolled in Medicaid in February, the latest available data.
55% : The legal challenge against the law, however, centers on whether the ban violates the state constitution and a privacy clause that was first approved by voters in 1980.
54% : Welcome back to Diagnosis, a vertical that focuses on the crossroads of health care policy and politics.___Lobbyists and health care providers are waiting anxiously for the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to finally announce who Florida is picking to oversee the state's multi-billion Medicaid system.
53% : But a new study by Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., director of the Miami Itch Center, and Santosh Mishra, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and associate professor at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, found that a B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plays a key role in chronic itch severity and can help to identify certain types of itch with a simple blood test.-- New rule: The Biden-Harris Administration unveiled a final rule aimed at protecting and improving how millions of eligible people apply for, renew, and maintain health care coverage through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Basic Health Program (BHP).
52% : Live Healthy does not include a Medicaid expansion as allowable under the federal health care law often referred to as Obamacare.
42% : Passidomo repeatedly, throughout the 2024 Session, said expanding Medicaid would not guarantee access to health care.
32% : "Thousands of Florida kids lost Medicaid.
31% : Whether they prevail now depends on the three justices appointed by Trump who were crucial to overturning Roe vs. Wade:

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