Fewer than 1,000 enroll in Cover Florida

Tampa Bay Business Journal, March 25, 2009

Fewer than 1,000 people have signed up for healthcare coverage under the Cover Florida program. Gov. Charlie Crist said in a release that six health plans reported enrolling 952 Floridians in the first two months of the program, from Jan. 1 through Feb. 28. Eighty-two percent of those who enrolled chose catastrophic coverage and 18% chose preventive coverage, the release said.