Starting by the year 2000, the nation has set a preventive health goal. The target is to have an immunization rates of 90 percent for generally suggested vaccines to children that belong to 19-35 months of age. They intend to achieve this goal by year 2010. It’s good to take note that some states have [...]

In the previous years, health insurance for children is covered through the insurance of their parents’ employer. Gone are the days when parents are dependent on their employers for the health insurance coverage of the whole family. Today, the employer-provided health insurance for children is continually declining. This is because most employers can no longer [...]

The United States Conference of Mayors was tremendously disappointed when US President George Bush vetoed a bill that would have funded $35 million to State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a health insurance program providing coverage to families with low to moderate income. Mayor Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton, New Jersey who is President of [...]

Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington wrote a letter for US President George W. Bush requesting the Bush administration to withdraw a federal directive preventing Washington and other states to increase their access to health care coverage to millions of uninsured children. In her letter, she mentioned that it is the goal of Washington to provide [...]

For the past ten years, the initiation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the augmented drive for the insurance coverage for children which was created by the new program revealed a striking decrease in the statistics of the uninsured children. However, there are still loads of works that need to be done. [...]

The president of the United States vetoed a bill that will benefit children of families with lower income. The bill is supposed to add $35 billion to a program that will give the children health insurance coverage which shows the State Children’s Health Insurance Program as a valuable prerogative program that has even more benefited [...]