Florida Kidcare Health Insurance Program
Miami Florida Health Insurance Report - At 54, Miami Florida house wife Lori Undergrads is jobless and raising three young children on her own.
She was very happy standing next to Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and other state agency heads in the Capitol Rotunda to discuss Florida’s kidcare program.
Lori was helping sing the praises of Florida KidCare, the state-federal program that provides no-cost health insurance for Florida’s children. Have you had much contact with the Florida Kidcare program? Do you know how it works? Is it based on a percentage of income? What are your thoughts on Florida’s health insurance program for the low income?
July 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
The problem with the Kid Care program is the fact that you can get booted off the plan at anytime. Parents need to provide lengthy documents to Kid Care regarding income etc every quarter and if Kid Care believes the parents are making too much money they will kick the kids right off the plan.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
It is great FL has Kidcare for low income families, but to penalize them immediately once they start making money only hurts the kids. Who is to say the next quarter, the families income drops back down.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
It is important that kids be covered, regardless of whether their parents can afford it or not. They should be given a chance to be healthy regardless of the situation their parents have put them in. It does seem silly though to raise the price of coverage when the parents start to recover financially, that would seem counterproductive. However, I could see if there were a limited budget for the plan that this would be neccesary.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Good basic program. I’ve seen people go on, come off and go back on. Income determination is essential or it become ab entirely different approach. Administration is predictably (for a government program) cumbersome but accountability is maintained.