A new Census Bureau report shows that Florida has a higher percentages of people without health insurance than most of the country. Only Texas has a higher percentage of people under the…
Tag: Uninsured
New wrinkle in healthcare
Have you been late on paying your medical bills? Well, hospitals may start refusing treatment based on your credit history. A new medical bill payment reporting system, MedFICO, will be available for…
Biggest Pensacola Wins
Where did the greater Pensacola area have its biggest wins last week? The Santa Rosa Island Authority finally looking at plans for a public parking garage on Pensacola Beach; Derrick Brooks being…
Who are the uninsured?
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…
One dollar a week to save lives
That’s what we’re talking about – $4 a month for the average person if we pass the half-cent sales tax for primary health care. How is that regressive? Is it better that…
New report says Florida healthcare at the bottom
Commonwealth Fund releases a study today that shows Florida ranks 40th in access to care, 45th in quality and 39th in equity of care. Among the 50 states and the District of…
GOP grumblings on Access Escambia
We’re hearing grumbings among the local GOP executive committee that some of their members oppose the half-cent sales tax for primary care for the uninsured and poor because they are afraid it…
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…