Health insurance coverage statistics released by Census Bureau

Health Insurance

Estimates for every county have been revealed. The United States Census Bureau has released the data from 2010, which provides estimates regarding the health insurance coverage within all of the 3,140 counties across the country. The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) are the leading source of this information. In fact, these estimates are frequently considered to be the only ones that can provide any solid information about the health insurance coverage in these areas for a given single year. It is the only collection of data that represents the…

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Health care reforms refusal by Governor Scott may force federal control

Florida Governor Rick Scott

Florida may not be running its own mandatory statewide insurance exchanges. The refusal of Governor Rick Scott to implement Florida’s federally mandated insurance exchanges as per the health care reforms that have just recently received the nod from the Supreme Court, means that nothing has been prepared for the January 2014 deadline. This makes it likely that the federal government will need to control the marketplace for that state. This control means that the state will not be able to choose how its exchanges operate, what the required benefits that…

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