Friday Speaker continued

The most interesting fact that he made was that FREE insurance is available for children ages 0-21 if family’s income is less than $21,000, which is not that low. The insurance is called Coverkids and is trying to make its way across Memphis. Coverkids covers up to 200% of poverty level ($53,000.) It is said to be a safety net those who are not covered by TennCare. The capacity of Coverkids is 75,000 children! That is an unbelievable amount! So why are all the children in Memphis not benefiting from this? The answer is, they just do not know about it! I really believe this would help out immensely in Memphis because then parents would not be afraid to take their children to the doctor because of extremely high hospital bills. Now knowing they will be covered, they will not wait until their child is deathly ill. Hopefully more and more families will spread the word and join. Right now only 16,000 children are enrolled under this insurance. I could not understand why there are not a ton more! Then he stated the fact that Coverkids was just established in may 2007. If they can keep the enrollment increasing as it has been then the future of Memphis may be off to a great start!