Program to offer more inclusive health coverage

09.12.09

A nonprofit energy created by the state to offer affordable health insurance coverage to people who have recently distraught their jobs or have pre-existing medical conditions is soliciting customers in Rocky Mount this week.

Representatives from Wide Health will be at Nash General Hospital on Thursday to boundary the program and sign people up.

From 10 a.m. until 1 p.m, agents from Embodying Health, also known as the N.C. Health Insurance Risk Pool, will be answering questions and determining whether individuals be fit for a new premium subsidy.

They also will be comparing rates with other policies and help people determine if Inclusive Health is right for them, a host release from the agency states.

The release also states that Broad Health recently received a federal grant to realize its high-risk pool even more affordable.

“We are very frantic about this $1.5 million grant which will make Inclusive Form coverage available to individuals on fixed incomes who may have found affordable insurance unattainable,” said Michael Keough, kingpin director of Inclusive Health. “We feel Rocky Mount has a likely pool of applicants who could benefit from our high-risk swimming-pool and from this new premium subsidy program called Inclusive Fitness Assist.”

Source: Rocky Mount Telegram