Health care law encompasses the laws and regulations governing hospital and health care administration, and an understanding of health care insurance is integral to it. There are significant differences in the types and amount of coverage provided by various private insurance policies, such as HMOs, PPOs, disability insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance, just as there are important differences in the cost to the purchasers of health insurance. There are also public health care insurance programs. Elderly and disabled persons may be eligible for coverage through the federal Medicare program. The joint state-federal Medicaid program helps certain individuals, including disabled persons and low-income elderly persons, pay for long-term care and in-home health care.
Baileyville is an unincorporated community in Ogle County, Illinois, and is located west of Rockford. In August, 2007, it marked its sesquicentennial with parade featuring the Baileyville Hillbillies, a group of townspeople who own a truck similar to the famed Beverly Hillbillies' Buick truck. The group decorates the truck in a manner similar to the truck in the television show, and dressed like the Clampett characters, rides in local parades.