With sections on how kids fit into the health care picture, why we can’t wait, and the problems the current system imposes on children and families, Connect for Kids offers some key facts and resources for your letters to the editor.
by: Jan Richter, Clare Krusing and the CFK Team
As Congress and the Obama administration work to reform our nation’s health care system, here are resources to understand what’s happening, what’s in it for kids and young people, and what you can do to help. Please note that the citations are not intended to be comprehensive – we link to one or two relevant studies for each. To suggest more resources, email submissions@connectforkids.org.
The basics:
- About 45.7 million people in America are without insurance (Census data, 2008).
- One in every 10 children in the United States had no health insurance in 2007, and the cost of insurance to families and employers is rising, according to 2009 information cited in a Population Reference Bureau brief.
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