Cover Florida: $150 a month plan for 3.8 million uninsured
Among the many ideas floated by Gov. Charlie Crist last month for improving health care in Florida, one stood out for its simplicity and its allure: Offer the estimated 3.8 million Floridians who lack health insurance an affordable plan for "$150 a month
or less."
Crist's "Cover Florida" proposal would not come with a state mandate that individuals had to buy it or employers had to offer it. And it would give insurance companies lots of leeway in deciding how to structure such a health plan--as long
Source: Orlando Sentinel, "Plan for health insurance"
Mar 14, 2008
Cover Florida: $150 a month plan for 3.8 million uninsured
they included "a robust package of preventive, primary and urgent-care benefits, including hospitalization."
A $150-per-month health-insurance policy "can't get you comprehensive coverage," says one analyst; such a plan would either have sky-high
deductibles for hospital stays or have no hospitalization coverage at all. Another analyst replies, "Anything that moves some number of people from the uninsured category into the insured category is a good thing that is worth considering."
Source: Orlando Sentinel, "Plan for health insurance"
Mar 14, 2008
Expand tax-free medical savings accounts
Crist supports the following principles concerning health care:
Support legislation to define and enforce the rights of insured patients.
Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for
any purpose other than medical costs.
Provide citizens age 55-65 the option of purchasing Medicare health coverage.
Source: Congressional 1998 National Political Awareness Test
Nov 1, 1998
