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July 25, 2001 at 08:00 PM
NU Online News Service, July 25, 10:22 a.m. – Researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, have published a study in Health Affairs, a leading health finance journal, looking at the reasons that many poor children still lack health insurance.
Almost all children are eligible for some kind of government-run or government-subsidized health insurance program, but managers need to do a better job of marketing their programs to parents, according to Peter Cunningham, a health system center researcher who wrote the report.
Cunningham looked at the effects of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a federal program established by Congress in 1997, on 18,800 U.S. children living in households with incomes below 200% of the official federal poverty level.
