Amherst Times

We put up a story yesterday about health care for children of lower income families, but today the follow up shares that a study says that almost 30 percent of those children haven’t even enrolled for the state-sponsored health care.

“Despite a decade of marketing efforts by governments and private foundations, nearly 30 percent of children who are eligible for the health insurance program and are not covered by private plans have yet to enroll, according to a new government study.”

“Late last week, the Bush administration published new standards intended to prevent states from expanding eligibility for the program to cover children from middle-class families. But a more fundamental debate over the program has been raging in Washington for months: how to find and enroll the 1.7 million low-income children who are already eligible but have not signed up.”
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