New SCHIP enrollees have unmet health care needs

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 05/04/2008 - 23:00

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Even with prior private health insurance, patients enrolling in the state children's health insurance program had unmet health care needs.

Instituting a waiting period to deter "crowd-out" would further prolong these children's need to address asthma and other chronic health conditions, according to research from the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The study will be presented in a presidential plenary session Monday, May 5, at this year's Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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