Joe Manchin III on Health Care

Democratic WV Governor

Expand Health Lifestyles & Preventive Care programs

I am pleased that we will be moving forward with the expansion of the Health Lifestyles effort into our schools during the coming months. Along with our comprehensive efforts to address the preventive health needs of our state among our youngest citizens, we also have made a major commitment to expand these efforts to those in West Virginia’s adult population who have no health coverage.

In my State of the State address earlier this month, I proposed two new public/private health initiatives to help these West Virginians get the affordable healthcare they need. The Preventive Care “Clinic Based” Plan, a basic preventive care at a very low price - starting at some clinics for as low as $1 dollar a day, and the Affordable Insurance Initiative, a plan that will be offered by commercial insurance carriers starting at a low cost of $99 per month, are affordable, cost effective healthcare initiatives that require no state subsidies.

Source: Press release, www.wvgov.org, “Health Care Efforts” Jan 20, 2006

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