Author: Charles Aldean

A warning was issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pregnant women travelling to Miami on the Zika virus. The Florida Governor, Rick Scott also issued a message to pregnant women to contact their Gynecologist to obtain Zika prevention kit. In the month of June soon after the argument on the blocked federal funds for Zika prevention, the Republican governor set aside $26 million from the state funds to procure CDC Zika prevention kits which includes a mosquito repellents, tablets to kill mosquitoes infested in the water and condoms.

Scott informed that the governor’s office and the state department of health are working in coordination to educate people in the concern area. The zika prevention kits were also distributed to pregnant women through OB-GYNs. But it is still not clear how far the kits have reached. Meanwhile, the spokesperson from the Florida Department of Health in an email said that prevention kits are available at the offices of OB-GYNs but was not clear on how they were distributed. While speaking to the Planned Parenthood vice president of South East and North florida, she said that they did not receive any such kit from the department of health. She also added that there was no guidance from the state department on the severity of the outbreak.

The complaint is that the state has taken on Zika and has blocked the state funding for reproductive health clinics when most of the pregnancies are unforeseen. Reports say that the recent Zika cases are not the first in the state. By the end of July around 400 cases were reported and within a span of many months, 55 pregnant women were involved. These cases were travel oriented and this goes to prove that it was brought home from outside of the United States. Now the department of Health is testing pregnant women free of cost for Zika symptoms and the virus is contained informs Jeri Bustamante, Spokesperson of the Governor

The US has declared that there will be an increase of almost 25 percent in the Insurance Plan. This step is surely going to affect the consumers as they will find only a fewer companies offering coverage. However, the administration under Obama said that 3/4th of the customers would be able to find proper plans for them which will be less than $100 per month if they take the help of federal subsidies.

On Nov 1st, the first looks of the options were released, and it clarified that the people without insurance are going to face tax penalties which can be from $700 per person or more. The options mentioned by the government will surely be a talk in most of the political conversations as the elections dates are coming closer. The only hope is that the next president should make adjustments in the option which both the parties Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton have promised.

Reports say that there will be an increase of almost 25 percent in the premium when compared with 2015. Due to this a major part of the insurance industry has pulled them out from the public market. If statistics are to be believed, then only one in five customers will find one insurer with the mentioned offerings the following year. For example, if a person who is 28 years old will have to pay around $302 as a monthly premium. For normal families, it will be difficult to pay this much premium for such kind f insurance. Officials have confirmed that the people should lower their cost by finding income-based subsidies which are in the kind of tax credits and by changing to a less expensive plan. Different plans have different cost and also cover different hospitals, doctors, and drugs. The administration said that they expect an average hike of 11.4 million next year.