{"id":29,"date":"2026-09-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/edjalvarez-com\/2026\/09\/27\/florida-property-tax-plan-shifts-medicaid-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:00:00","slug":"florida-property-tax-plan-shifts-medicaid-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/27\/florida-property-tax-plan-shifts-medicaid-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida: Property Tax Plan Shifts Medicaid Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/edwin-alvarez-1203825\/florida-property-tax-proposal-could-leave-counties-with-420-million-in-medicaid-costs-says-remotion-videos-02b1\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Florida economists recently said counties will cover nearly $420M of the state&#039;s healthcare program this fiscal year, as potential property tax cuts threaten local revenue.<br \/>\nLargest county shares this fiscal year were Miami-Dade $69.4M, Broward $34.7M, Hillsborough $30.9M, Orange $26.7M, and Duval $22.7M, reflecting their larger populations.<br \/>\nCounty healthcare contributions are expected to reach nearly $452M next fiscal year, when the ballot measure would take effect if voters approve it in Mid-Q4.<br \/>\nThe measure would raise Florida&#039;s homestead exemption for non-school property taxes from $50K to $250K by 2028, with first-year city and county revenue \u2193nearly $5B.<br \/>\nFlorida had nearly 3.9M healthcare program enrollees as of June 30, 2026, and 29 fiscally constrained counties have part of their required shares offset.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida economists recently said counties will cover nearly $420M of the state&#039;s healthcare program this fiscal year, as potential property tax cuts threaten local revenue. Largest county shares this fiscal year were Miami-Dade $69.4M, Broward $34.7M, Hillsborough $30.9M, Orange $26.7M, and Duval $22.7M, reflecting their larger populations. County healthcare contributions are expected to reach nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edjalvarez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}