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— Marketplace Overhaul —

Rep. Taylor Yarkosky has filed legislation to overhaul and rename the Florida Health Choices Program, refocusing it as an employer-based health marketplace.

The measure ( HB 141 ) renames the initiative as the Florida Employee Health Choices Program. It rewrites much of the existing statute governing how small businesses and workers can access private health coverage options. The program, originally envisioned as a health insurance “marketplace” when created in 2008, never reached full scale and was later criticized as redundant after the rollout of the federal Affordable Care Act.

Yarkosky’s bill reorients the program around individual cove

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