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The Florida House and Senate hasn’t seen eye to eye about healthcare expansion in the state the whole year. As Matt Galka tells us, the Senate keeps changing their plan to try to compromise with the House.

The Florida Senate isn’t backing down from pushing their healthcare expansion plan. And they want to make one thing clear.

“If you think this is Medicaid expansion, you’re wrong,” said Sen. Aaron Bean (R-Jacksonville) on the Senate floor.

Senators continued to make the case for why Florida needs to accept federal money to help uninsured or underinsured Floridians.

“We can never lose sight of the people the Senate is trying to help. These are students who by no fault of their own have no access to insurance,” said Sen. Rene Garcia (R-Hialeah).

The Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange or FHIX plan –which supporters say can help hundreds of thousands of uninsured – got a full vote from Senators Wednesday.

Lawmakers agreed to five more amendments to the plan to go along with more changes made on Tuesday.

One of the biggest changes – allowing the state to end the program. If the federal government backs out of giving their portion of the money, then the state can make it go away.

Senators say the fixes for FHIX meet the concerns of the state’s Agency For Healthcare Administration. Now they’ll have to convince members of the Florida House

“We have a very tough sell, we’re trying to shine it up for them and hopefully make it more attractive,” said Sen. Bean.

House members are far from on board.

“It’s a house of cards, it’s built on a false premise, and what we really need to do is move past the Senate’s Medicaid expansion plan and focus on the rest of Florida’s budget,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Shalimar).

Opponents doubt that even if the proposal passed the legislature the federal government would approve it.

The FHIX plan passed the Senate with only three “no” votes. The Full Florida House is expected to vote on it on Friday.