News tagged with 'Health Insurance and Managed Care'

Americans could be hit with hefty fines for failing to buy health insurance under a new plan put on the table by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) a moderate who heads the influential Finance Committee.

One thing is unlikely to change under the Obama administration: growing support for federally funded community help centers. President Bush has doubled federal financing for clinics which serve the poor and underinsured in urban neighborhoods and rural counties where health care is lacking, reports the New York Times.

Cover Florida offers low-cost health insurance to those who have been without for at least six months or whose COBRA payments have run out. It's predicted up to 3 million Floridians could take advantage of the 25 plans which are not subsized by the government.