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 [...]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is receiving criticism over his recently released budget for the current year. At a time when many employers are having to eliminate employee health benefits and even lower salaries, Crist has decided to increase the amount taxpayers must pay to support the free health benefits his top government workers currently enjoy. [...]
A variey of health insurance carriers compete for Wal-Marts business every year. It just so happens the consumer mega-giant, Wal-Mart, reports that this year’s rate of employees covered by their insurance plan has increased for 2009. The rate of uninsured employees has dropped 25% in the last year, and roughly 40% from 2007 to 2009. [...]
The Good News Care Center in Florida City is set to receive a grant of $1.6 million from Babtist Health of South Florida. Babtist has long been the primary funding source of the center, and the current award will support ongoing operations and patient care services. The center is staffed by volunteer physicians as well [...]
The one and only mental health facility in Manatee County has already been forced to lay off 17 employees in order to stay afloat, however it may be forced to shut its doors completely without renewed funding in the coming months. In addition, the hospitals Children Crisis Center, which helps troubled teens, may be ending as [...]
West Florida Hospital proudly announced recently that they are the only hospital in Northwest Florida to offer private rooms to all of its patients. Most people would not consider sharing a room in a hotel, so why should they want to share a hospital room when they are in need of peace and rest? West [...]
The SCHIP program, which is headed towards an almost certain passage and expansion, is still causing some diviseness among senators over the issue of funding. The proposal involves increasing the taxes on cigarettes at the rate of 61 cents per pack and would expand the program to cover an additional 4 million children who currently [...]
Dr. Poss is beginning to feel more like an assembly line worker than a family physician, as she receives roughly $23 per patient from insurance companies. In order to make a living, she has to see six or seven patients an hour, which leaves little time for providing proper care and concern to each patient. The [...]
The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida has decided to grant three organizations in central Florida with nearly $800,000 to support community health insurance programs. The Orange County Health Department will be receiving $100,000 to support uninsured black women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine will receive nearly $50,000 for [...]
Obama’s proposed efforts to help struggling state economies may come too late for many people, as states are forced to cut the budget on many programs which aid the poor. Some of these programs are for such important items like health insurance. Coming at an unfortunate time, when an unprecedented number of people are losing [...]