Friday, August 05, 2005

One-Third of the Estimated 8.4M Uninsured Children Go Without Medical Care for Entire Year, Despite Eligibility for Public Health Insurance, Report Says Item in the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report - "The number of uninsured U.S. children decreased by about two million to 8.4 million between 1998 and 2003, and 70% of the uninsured qualified for public health insurance programs such as Medicaid or SCHIP but were not enrolled, according to a study released on Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to the report, released as part of the sixth annual RWJF Covering Kids and Families Back to School Campaign, 20% of Latino children lacked health insurance, compared with 9% of black children and 6% of white children... "