Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rearrange the U.S. social safety net.

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The number of Floridians relying on the states health care safety-net program continues to push higher amid the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly released figures show that enrollment in Floridas Medicaid program grew by nearly 7.7 percent between February and May, but at least one analysis puts the growth rate even higher. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Children and Families has been tracking Medicaid enrollment in 15 states -- including Florida -- that make data publicly available. When a recession occurs, Medicaid enrollment goes up. The spike in Medicaid enrollment was expected after the pandemic shut down businesses, and Congress agreed to increase the federal governments share of costs for new enrollees by 6.2 percentage points.

WASHINGTON Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and God forbid if I get sick and I don't have it," she said of her health insurance. They can go to the federal HealthCare.gov or their state's health insurance website. The federal-state Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid cover kids in families with incomes well above the poverty level. Government statistics on people losing and finding health insurance coverage in the coronavirus contraction won't be available for months.

For example if your plan allowsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The percentages of children lacking health insurance in Florida and nationwide are on the rise, reversing recent trends. In 2018, 7.6 percent of Florida children were without insurance, up 1 percentage point from 2016. Florida's largest county, Miami-Dade, had the ninth-highest number of uninsured children in the country, with 41,534 in 2018. The increases reversed years of decreases in the percentages of uninsured children. The rates of uninsured children started to decrease with the passage of the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides subsidized insurance to children who live in families whose income exceeds what's allowable under traditional Medicaid.