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Nurses from across the state were in Tallahassee today asking lawmakers to leave Medicaid funding in tact. Lawmakers are considering cutting 400 million state dollars from Medicaid, which would in turn eliminate 1.4 billion matching federal dollars the state receives for the entitlement program. Suzanne Conrad, a nurse practitioner at Shands in Gainesville says if funding is cut her patients won’t be able to get the drugs they need for organ transplants.

“There’s Medically Needy patients that desperately need services and I know almost every year it’s mentioned that this program could be cut,” said Conrad.

Twenty nurses worked the halls today. Earlier this week 40 nurses were at the capitol. They hope to keep a presence in Tallahassee until the end of session to remind lawmakers of their cause.