As outfits trim their health insurance coverage to compensate for rising costs, 2 studies highlight economy’s effects on little tikes’s health-care.
The first found 16% of the little tikes’s parents lost their jobs and 14% lost health insurance coverage.
Children whose parents lost or simply changed jobs were twice as likely to lose their health insurance. Those who had private health insurance fared worse; they were 3 times more likely to lose health coverage.
the second study looked at 15,447 little tikes for the effects of on-and-off health insurance coverage. The youngsters faced unfilled prescriptions, delayed care, and lack of physician visits similar to their completely "not insured" peers.
But Iowa, high on the list of little tikes’s health-insurance rates in the nation, doesn’t seem to be hurting yet. In 2006, 93.7 percent of Iowa’s little tikes under age 18 had insurance, and most were covered by employment-based private plans, according to the State Data Center of Iowa.
And Iowa is an “interesting” case: High numbers of self-insured and self-employed individuals (i.e., farmers) are “doing a good job of covering their families,” said Peter Damiano, a UI professor and the director of the Public Policy Center.
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