Saturday, July 08, 2006
A new health insurance plan for children of working and low-income parents has become realism in Mendocino County. It's called Healthy Kids Mendocino and it's open to children from infant to 19 years of age, whose parents earn up to $60,000 a year. There are no other qualifications and immigrants, lawful or illegal, are welcome to apply to the plan.
Under the plan, parents would pay a monthly premium of between $4 and $15 a month and their children would get medical, dental and visual health benefits. Private and public donors add to a fund used to pay the remainder of the children's insurance premiums and plan staff assess whether the children can be insured less than one of two obtainable State of California health insurance programs, Healthy Families or MediCal. For children who are not qualified for either of these, a new program, Cal Kids, has been shaped using public and private funding.
The goal of the plan is to contact and insure more than 1500 children who are now uninsured in Mendocino County. Healthy Kids staff claims that about 1200 of those children would meet the criteria for either Healthy Families or MediCal, and that it expects to sign up at least 300 children for the Cal Kids insurance.
posted by kanth
@ 1:36 AM
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