MedSave.com plans activities to support the 'Covering Kids and Families' Back to School Campaign to educate parents about free and low cost health insurance available to children.

(PRWEB) July 7, 2006 -- MedSave.com joins with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program called 'Covering Kids and Families' Back to School Campaign scheduled for August 2006 to urge parents to call toll-free 1(877) KIDS-NOW to find out if their uninsured children are eligible for low-cost or free health care coverage.

Most of the 8.3 million uninsured children in the United States are eligible for low-cost or free health care coverage through either Medicaid or their state children's health insurance program. MedSave.com also offers live support by telephone and e-mail to parents of children who do not qualify for free or low cost health insurance through the state; in many cases children can be covered by a commercial "mini-med" policy for less than $40 per month.

MedSave.com's OnlineAdviser support can help find the coverage that best fits each family's specific needs and is especially helpful in those cases where best results are obtained by enrolling the children in a different health plan from each of the parents. For example, a family of four might find that the children are eligible for free coverage through the state, the mother is best covered under an employer-provided managed care plan paid through payroll deductions and the father is covered under a separate commercial short term health insurance policy while seeking employment that may provide other benefit options. Many families still do not realize that good cheap health insurance options are available. Others cannot distinguish between the reputable health plans offered and the scams that prey on lower income people without health insurance. OnlineAdviser provides free support in all 50 states, regardless of citizenship, to health insurance applicants who use Web-based resources for health plan research and enrollment.

MedSave.com recently published an article titled "Trends in Children's Health Insurance" that details these various approaches and emphasizes that better education about health insurance options is the key to reducing the number of uninsured Americans. MedSave.com is one of the oldest online health insurance enrollment services and has helped more than 60,000 Web users find low cost and short term health insurance in all 50 states and District of Columbia.