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Part 2 in a series: After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many enrolled their children with complex needs in Florida Healthy Kids, a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their special care.
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WUSF is reporting on how distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine exposes inequities in Florida’s health care system.
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