Small Business in Florida and Group Health Insurance

Published on 06 August 2009 by echealth in Health Insurance Reform

Florida business and Group Health Insurance Premiums

Florida is already hurting from the recession like the rest of the country only worse because everyone knows that Florida is an exaggerated view of the rest of the country. For example if you have a drug problem in Kentucky, well then in Florida you are probably already dead from an overdose. Now with the lingering taste of businesses being mandated to offer health coverage, we are likely to see a large amount of additional out of business signs in Florida as many companies have been struggling to make their overhead. Couple in the difficulty of obtaining business financing and you are looking at entirely unmanageable situation that could end up pushing the country headlong into a real depression, if we have of course not already been in one.
With the costs of Medicare and the more recent Medicare Drug Plan (which was really just an excuse for the President to rape America in the name of the pharmecutical industry since when do Republicans pass entitlement programs?) getting so high in the next 5 years that the plans will literally run out of money how are we going to straddle the economy with another program which is in reality going to be bigger then the first two in scope and coverage? We need to contain Medicare costs, get rid of the nonsensical Medicare drug plan which can be mimicked for free by ordering Canada Drugs, and then expand Medicaid with the savings to cover the uninsurable people who I meet everday in Florida with their health conditions not being manageable. Then we need to offer coverage to those that can’t afford it as well but Medicaid is the last program that should be used for this. Right now in Florida we have very effective county health plan that are not good enough to want to stay on but good enough to make sure everyone has a chance to have medical coverage. Because the facts are if you make a public plan too good like when welfare paid out so much money, then people are less likely to stay on it. The county health plans usually are amazingly good except that you have to wait to see a doctor (which is actually reminiscent of another health plan hmm which one was that again oh yes Canada!) so if you are forced to get on this plan you will likely start your job hunt sooner then you had planned. In the meantime lets not force our Florida business owners (me amongst them) to shut our doors because of some tax for a problem that the government created and now wants us to fix.