Archive for the 'Children' Category

How can Republicans be against health care reform when children have died because they didn't have insurance?

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

An estimated 17,000 children in the United States might have died unnecessarily over nearly two decades because they didn’t have health insurance, according to a report from researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore.
http://www.usnews.com/health/managing-your-healthcare/policy/articles/2009/10/29/17000-child-deaths-linked-to-lack-of-insurance.html

If the US Govt offered a National Health Care system ("public option") for children only, would you support it?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

As in, they get rid of pre-existing state and federal child health care programs (like CHIP) and got a NHS-style system for everyone under 18.
Since the bulk of the super-expensive specialized care (heart surgery, emergency reconstructive cosmetic surgery, etc.) have Adult patients, those things could stay through private insurers.
But since child health care is comparatively [...]

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