While there are currently millions of Americans without health insurance, in Florida alone roughly 20% of the population has no health insurance and a quarter of its working population is without health insurance. There are six million more uninsured workers today than there were a little over a decade ago. This is a dangerous situation [...]
Seemingly everyone is suffering right now, with the unemployment rate higher than it has been in over two decades. While nothing can have a greater immediate impact on your finances than losing a job, if you add medical bills on top of this, it can spell disaster. Unmanageable medical bills have long been a leading [...]
Florida health care expert and broker, Morgan Moran, is enthusiastic about the changes already evident since President Obama took office a couple of months ago. He says that already he is seeing lower premiums for higher quality health insurance policies. Moran is very hopeful that with Obama in office, the nation will get caught up [...]
The rate of uninsured Floridians is reaching epidemic proportions as more and more people are losing their jobs and their health insurance benefits. Experts fear that the loss of coverage will drive many more people to use expensive emergency rooms for treatment, which will then fall on tax payers and hurt the bottom line of [...]
Nothing seems more heartbreaking than when someone dies a seemingly preventable death. Such was the case for a South Florida heart attack patient who suffered a stroke when she could no longer afford her prescription drugs and stopped taking them altogether. Going cold turkey off of many medications is dangerous, but it can be especially [...]
Led by three women from Florida State University’s Medical School and College of Information, a forum was held recently to raise issues which effect community health and to discuss ways to handle them. After a lively discussion involving much audience participation from citizens of a variety of neighboring counties, severl issues came to the head [...]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist presented the idea of merging the Agency for Health Care Administration with the Department of Health in an effort to save money. The idea was met with little enthusiasm, as it was estimated to only save roughly $2 million. Critics of the proposal assert that it would cost more than that [...]
Rick Scott, the co-founder and chairman of Jacksonville, FL-based Solantic LLC, has recently dived into the health care reform currently sweeping the nation. Scott is heading up Conservatives for Patients’ Rights which is a multimillion dollar ad campaign lobbying for free market health care reform instead of the government controlled reform which Obama is working [...]
Employees of the Palm Beach Florida County School Board were in for a shock during open enrollment this year when all 21,500 eligible employees were asked to provide documentation proving that their spouses and dependents were legitimate before being allowed to enroll them under health insurance coverage through the school board. Normally during open enrollment, [...]
The rate at which citizens are losing their health insurance in Florida is so rapid that is is only being outpaced by California and New York. The Center for American Progress released a study last month showing that a frightening number of Floridians were losing their health insurance, roughly 850 every day. This number has [...]