Why should all children, regardless of immigration status, have access to insurance?
Just as all children are guaranteed access to education, it is essential to provide every child with access to appropriate health care. Uninsured children are likely to go without needed care, and as a result are also likely to pass on communicable diseases to insured children, in school and in the community. Uninsured children also most often end up receiving care in an emergency room, usually within the public health care system where care is more expensive to provide and typically not reimbursed. Consequently, the community as a whole is burdened with increasing costs as communicable diseases are spread and emergency care becomes more expensive.
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