Virginia Health Care Foundation

Finding affordable health insurance can be a challenge.   Fewer and fewer employers are offering health insurance as a benefit, and, for those who do offer it, the cost to both the employer and the employee seem to skyrocket every year.

Yet, without health insurance, worries about of becoming ill or injured are financial fears, not just a physical ones.  Hardworking people can become bankrupt if they run up high medical bills and don’t have insurance to cover them.

Help for Children:

Fortunately, at least for Virginia children, there’s help available.  FAMIS health insurance is state-sponsored insurance for children under age 19.  It covers medical and dental costs, among other benefits, and is available to children of lower income working families.  It is not Welfare.  Find out if your family income qualifies your children for FAMIS by visiting the Child Health Insurance section of this website or by contacting FAMIS directly.

Insurance for Adults:

Need help finding health insurance?  Have questions about the various kinds of insurance options out there? Are you newly unemployed and trying to find out if COBRA is the best option?  Find the answers to these and other insurance questions at the Adult Insurance section of this website.