Why should all children, regardless of immigration status have access to comprehensive insurance and what are the benefits to the community?
Just as all children are guaranteed access to education, it is essential to provide every child with comprehensive health insurance. Uninsured children are likely to go without needed care, and as a result, also are likely to pass on communicable diseases to insured children in school and in the community. Uninsured children also most often end up in emergency rooms where care is more expensive to provide and typically not reimbursed. Consequently, the community, as a whole, is burdened with increasing levels of communicable diseases, and emergency care becomes more expensive with longer wait times for all. According to the Institute for Health Policy Solutions, “Children’s access to health insurance and health care are important determinants of better health outcomes and readiness to learn. A regular source of care is particularly important for children in assuring that appropriate preventive services are provided, acute and chronic conditions are diagnosed and treated in a timely man
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