Sprowls: No Florida House Member Lost Reelection After Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
Chris Sprowls · Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale · Jan 20, 2022 · at 8:06
Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls describes how lawmakers withstood multi-million-dollar hospital association attack campaigns over Medicaid policy.
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“We had a huge debate about Medicaid expansion, where the Florida House had said, we're not gonna expand Medicaid. Because it doesn't help the most vulnerable in our community. That's not who it helps. We're going to focus on them. And the hospital associations came out. They spent, you know, millions and millions of dollars attacking our members. People thought, oh my gosh, you know, I'm going to go home, lose an election. Not a single person lost an election, not a single one.”
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