| More local children in jeopardy if Bush vetoes S-CHIP health bill
Among those lives: More than 9,000 Volusia and Flagler county children who could lose coverage if the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) isn't reauthorized. The program's effectiveness should be obvious to anyone who takes an honest look. Healthy Kids (Florida's S-CHIP-funded program) gives children access to checkups and medicines they need to thrive. Without it, many would have care only through hard-to-find free clinics and hospital emergency rooms. Florida politicians -- including former Gov. Jeb Bush -- could be among the most effective advocates for the program, because they've watched it from the beginning. Inspired by a hospital-district-funded pilot in Volusia and Flagler counties, Florida lawmakers created Healthy Kids in 1990. Unlike Medicaid, Healthy Kids isn't a handout; instead, it uses tax dollars to help lower the cost of private-sector health insurance policies for children.
Universal health care, Islamic extremists and the gleaming ...
Even President Malaprop hasnt tried that one yet, although its likely being tested for credibility and traction on some focus group as we speak. But to the point . . . Last week, I wrote an article for Online Journal called Health care wars and the lies the for-profit racketeers tell us. I wrote it to offer my best educated guesses on how the health insurance industry will attack Michael Moores SiCKO and, even more critical to them, blunt the groundswell of public anger and outrage this movie has generated all across the country. News reports and blog postings from Florida to Alaska suggest Moore is responsible for creating widespread public revulsion regarding our ongoing public health catastrophe. Apparently, it crosses standard demographic barriers, race and class distinctions.
Florida Health Insurance Web Comments on Republican's Fight ...
While Democrats push for an overall health care plan for children, Republican leaders of the House and Senate are attacking proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Florida health insurance agent Morgan Moran says "the new plan will be paid for with higher taxes on tobacco." (PRWEB) July 27, 2007 -- Health insurance chaos continues. In the House, Democrats are trying to bring health insurance coverage to 5 million children who are currently "uninsured" - "but it looks like Republicans will fight these proposals," said Morgan Moran, of www.FloridaHealthInsuranceWeb.com. The top two Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Trent Lott of Mississippi, say they oppose the bipartisan bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved last week and the two senators would offer an alternative to the insurance plan on the Senate floor.
Florida Health Insurance Agency comments on agreement between ...
Jacksonville Florida health insurance carrier Aetna lets residents know they will keep their in-patient and out-patient services at in-network rates, from Baptist's five Jacksonville-area hospitals: Baptist Medical Center Downtown; Baptist Medical Center Beaches; Baptist Medical Center Nassau; Baptist Medical Center South; and Wolfson Children's Hospital, along with the Baptist Primary Care network. According to insurance consultant, Florida Health Insurance Web, the current agreement of the multi-year contract ensures continuation of the long-term relationship between Aetna and Bapitst. .
COLUMN: Health insurance: finding the third way
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jul 23, 2007 (FSView & Florida Flambeau, U-WIRE via COMTEX) -- The basic design of the U.S. health insurance system has not changed since 1966. In over 40 years, health care has gotten more expensive, millions of people have worked long and hard without ever getting insurance, and most politicians have avoided the issue for fear of offending powerful lobbies. It is understandable that Michael Moore's new movie Sicko is has received so much publicity. Sicko may surpass his previous hit, Fahrenheit 9/11, to become the most popular documentary ever in the U.S. After all, a man who can analyze our social and economic problems and make us laugh at the same time can't be all bad. But there is one hitch. Moore believes the government, preferably the Federal government in Washington, should provide health insurance to everyone.
Health Insurance Plan Proposal Raises Taxes on Wealthy
President Bush is hoping to turn the upcoming debate over children's health insurance into one that focuses on helping all of the uninsured. The presidents position would help the nations uninsured, but raise taxes on the wealthy. In his attempt to expand the health insurance debate, Bush added a new wrinkle to his health care plan unveiled earlier this year. In that proposal, Bush called for making health insurance more affordable for many families through changes in the tax code. Meanwhile, some families with more expensive health insurance policies would see their taxes rise. Bush's new insurance proposal would treat health insurance benefits as taxable income. Bush said, he would be "willing to discuss whether taxpayers should get a standard deduction" to compensate them, as he originally suggested, or a tax credit.
Kingdom Of The Online Cupids
Some would argue Canada is the capital of the online dating business, with many of the leading trends in the industry taking shape here first. "Lavalife is an institution," says David Evans, who runs the blog Online Dating Insider. "Peoples' grandmothers know Lavalife." Lavalife, which was sold in March, 2004, to U.S.-based Vertrue Inc., for about $150-million, was the start of it all. In the late 1980s, a Toronto-based company called Interactive Media Group started a telephone dating service, one of the first of its kind in North America. Growth was explosive and the company eventually expanded across Canada and into the United States. .
Florida Health Insurance Plan - Proposal Raises Taxes on Wealthy
President Bush is hoping to turn the upcoming debate over children's health insurance into one that focuses on helping all of the uninsured. The presidents position would help the nations uninsured, but raise taxes on the wealthy. (PRWEB) June 30, 2007 -- In his attempt to expand the health insurance debate, Bush added a new wrinkle to his health care plan unveiled earlier this year. In that proposal, Bush called for making health insurance more affordable for many families through changes in the tax code. Meanwhile, some families with more expensive health insurance policies would see their taxes rise. Bush's new insurance proposal would treat health insurance benefits as taxable income. Bush said, he would be "willing to discuss whether taxpayers should get a standard deduction" to compensate them, as he originally suggested, or a tax credit.
Abortion common ground
An initiative approved last week by the U.S. House -- which was supported by research in Kansas -- offers rare common ground on abortion. The Reducing the Need for Abortions Initiative includes $647 million for health, economic and educational assistance for women and families. What does that have to do with abortion? A study released in May by Catholics United for the Common Good found a direct correlation between abortion rates and the availability of jobs, health insurance and Head Start centers, based on an analysis of Kansas data from 2000 to 2004. "These findings suggest," the report concluded, "that increasing employment opportunities for families, access to education for children, and health insurance for working families can and will decrease the number of abortions." Interestingly, the report also found that residents in Kansas counties with abortion clinics are less likely to obtain abortions than those who live in counties without clinics.
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