According to a study conducted in the United States of America during 1997, approximately 11 million children do not have any health insurance. It’s considered to be an extremely high number of children. Many of these children are living in high-income families which make them unqualified for Medicaid but not enough to afford private coverage. [...]

In 1997, studies predict that the number of children getting SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) coverage may still decline next year. This is sad news for Democrats who promised they would expand enrollment from 6 million children to 10 million. Republicans assert that any expansion should not allow middle-income families to drop private coverage [...]

Children, though they are usually healthy at their young age, may still need physical therapy. There are many reasons for this. They may have cerebral palsy and they need physical therapy to help them move their bodies easier. Perhaps they have injured themselves in playing rough and broke a bone or two. They may be [...]

Studies held in California shows that there are more than 3 million children who are overweight or obese. The public health perspective shows that children who are obese could grow and remain obese during their later years. This will put them into greater risk of major health problems like heart attacks, asthma, high blood pressure, [...]

Do you know that insuring your school-age children could make a huge difference? Children with insurance are likely to have a constant source of care. They would be more likely to have access to preventive care. They would get health care services they need. If you insure children, the gap between racial disparities when it [...]

Undeniably true, but President George W. Bush vetoed over the successful Children’s Health Insurance Plan in the hopes of cutting government expenditures. The program has been made by President Bill Clinton during his presidency so that the children who belong to the lower strata of the society can also enjoy the benefits of having health [...]

In the United States, recent decades have seen the rising rate of uninsured families. Because of these, in 1997, Medicaid welfare programs were expanded to provide for children of lower income families. This signaled the start of a trend to insure children separately from their parents. Recently, the amount of child-only health insurance buyers increased. [...]

Federal legislations have proposed children’s health insurance to be one of the topics that should be discussed on television. This would ensure the increase of awareness and dissemination of useful information regarding health insurance to the masses. They have made plans with the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a federal government program, to provide funds [...]

Good news for those on the waiting list for health coverage: With the help of funding from First 5 California, the state’s Healthy Families program today moved to safeguard more than 65,000 infants and children from waiting lists for health coverage due to the budget crisis. First 5 California will provide $16.7 million to the [...]

The CHIP is expected to pass and is now in full planning, here’s the details of the program which aims to give children the badly needed coverage from the debunked health care system. The program aims to offer a lot of medical benefits for kids such as; eye exams and glasses should they be needed, [...]