New research indicates that the U.S. Census Bureau estimate for the number of uninsured Americans, said to be at about $46 million in 2007, is woefully outdated. New estimates show that the number of Americans without insurance has gone up to approximately $52 million now, with the unemployment rate and recession having a heavy impact. [...]
As the recession continues and more Floridians find themselves unemployed and without health insurance, many people are choosing to cut back, delay, or even forego completely their routine health care. South Florida providers have seen as much as a 30% decrease in the number of patients they would normally see. Many of these patients have [...]
Assurant Health, a leading provider of health insurance plans in many states including Florida, is working with members during these times of economic crisis to make health care more affordable. The company is offering members the option of opting out of their low deductible plans and instead choose a higher deductible which brings their rate [...]
The recession is doing more to affect the health of Floridians than just stressing people out. As people lose their jobs, or fear losing their jobs, it is affecting the elective procedures and surgeries that people may need or want to have, but are not life threatening. Knee replacements, weight loss surgeries, and cosmetic surgeries [...]
The recession has forced many people to drop their health insurance, and not just those who are unemployed. For some people, nameley those who work at a small business where no group plan is available, are forced to carry an individual policy. These policies can be pricey and difficult to come by to begin with, [...]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has been a major supporter in Obama’s stimulus package, from start to finish. Being a Republican, he has received more than a little criticism for this. Crist continues to assert that Florida needs and deserves the money, and that it will use the more than $12 billion to stimulate job growth, [...]
For many families who have relied on using credit cards to pay for medical expenses when they had no other alternative are finding that getting credit is becoming more and more difficult and leaving them with little recourse. Medical debt is already one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in this country, and now as [...]
South Florida continues to be the hot bed of Medicare fraud as three more doctors were arrested over the past weekend in relation to millions of dollars in false claims involving obsolete HIV therapy. Physicians Carmen Lourdes del Cueto, 65; Roberto Rodriguez, 54; and Carlos Garrido, 69 are being held under accusations of submitting $10 million [...]