Florida Medicaid expansion rejected by state Senate panel

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott's plan to expand Medicaid coverage to cover about 1 million more poor people suffered a potential death blow on Monday when the proposal failed to make it out of a key state legislative committee.

The Senate Select Committee on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rejected the expansion, just as a House legislative committee had done last week.

Unless political leaders agree to present a new compromise bill, the legislative rejection of Scott's expansion of the state-federal program would now be final.

(Reporting by Bill Cotterell)

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