Florida legislators passed a public health insurance expansion that would help poor and disabled children get better coverage over a year ago, but it still hasn’t used the funds.

Kicked off of Medicaid, Florida children with medically complex needs are offered a state insurance program designed for healthy kids who cannot provide the care they require.

After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many families enrolled their children with complex needs in “Florida Healthy Kids,” a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their complex medical care.

Florida terminated Medicaid coverage for more than one million people once the COVID-19 emergency declaration was ended. Thousands of children with complex medical needs lost their Medicaid coverage. Some of them ended up on a plan not designed to provide the coverage they need leaving them without proper care.