{"id":2974,"date":"2009-07-14T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2009-07-14T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:06:46","slug":"low-cost-health-plan-available-to-miami-dade-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/07\/low-cost-health-plan-available-to-miami-dade-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost health plan available to Miami-Dade residents."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Dade residents who don&#8217;t have health insurance can sign up for a new plan aimed at helping the estimated 600,000 uninsured in the county.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2975\" title=\"health\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/health-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCalled Miami-Dade Blue, the program went into effect July 1. It&#8217;s a joint venture between the county and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and is designed with low premiums and low co-pays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For many people, this might be the first time they ever access care,&#8221; said Penny Shaffer, an executive for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, who spoke at a recent town hall meeting organized by County Commissioner Dorrin D. Rolle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintJuly2009\/low-cost-health-plan-miami-dade.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read MiamiHerald.com article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Dade residents who don&#8217;t have health insurance can sign up for a new plan aimed at helping the estimated 600,000 uninsured in the county. Called Miami-Dade Blue, the program went into effect July 1. It&#8217;s a joint venture between the county and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and is designed with low premiums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1838],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}