Last August, we wrote about the area’s poor health and the Escambia Community Clinic. Rosalynda Blackburn shuffles slowly to the exam room at the Escambia Community Clinics. Two back operations on her…
Tag: healthcare
FSU requires student health insurance
Florida State University is now requiring all students to have health insurance. If they can’t get covered under their parents’ policy, then FSU will sell it to them. From Orlando Sentinel: If…
New Orleans looking at healthcare
New Orleans has a real health care problem with the poor and uninsured. Prior to Katrina, the state had a really screwed up system that pushed all the poor and uninsured to…
Infant mortality close to Miss. levels
Sunday edition of the NY Times had an article on infant mortality Mississippi among blacks. In 2005, 17 out of every 1,000 children born to black parents died, up from 14.2 per…
Talking Points
From my WUWF TV show – IN Your Face TV. Topics: Access Escambia, Benny Washington, City Sanitation, Private Landfills and Operation Brownsville Click here to view
Illinois Covered – statewide healthcare insurance
The Democratic governor of Illinois is proposing a $2.1 billion plan to help pay for healthcare. The plan doesn’t stop with the uninsured, but also has rebates for those having difficulty paying…
Access Escambia – sales tax
The proposal by Access Escambia to have a half-cent sales tax to help pay for doctor visits for the uninsured has surfaced two area of opposition – besides those against everything: Those…
Referendum for health care
HEALTHY TAX How do you solve the costly and unhealthy problem of the uninsured in Escambia County? Access Escambia supporters believe one answer is a ½-cent sales tax to provide basic primary…
State of the Union health insurance misfire
President Bush’s plan to help families and individuals pay for health insurance won’t work in Pensacola. In our area, it’s estimated 1 in every 5 residents are uninsured, or about 61,400. Nearly…
Priorities
Let’s assume, as the daily newspaper has, that Escambia County and Pensacola have the reserves and/or revenue sources to pay a significant portion of the $115 million to move the Main St….
Future job for Holly possibly AHCA Secretary
Sources have revealed that the post for which local state Rep. Holly Benson is competing is Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA). According to its website, ACHA “champions accessible,…
Benson is up for healthcare position
Rumors persist that newly re-elected state rep. Holly Benson is being promoted to head a statewide healthcare agency. I’m trying to get confirmation on which one. If she’s appointed, then we will…