Uninsured kids in middle class have same unmet needs as poor

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Fri, 05/02/2008 - 23:00

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Nationwide, uninsured children in families earning between $38,000 and $77,000 annually are nearly as likely to forgo health care as uninsured children in poorer families.

More than 40 percent of children in those income brackets who are uninsured all year see no physicians and have no prescriptions all year, says new research from the University of Rochester Medical Center, to be presented Saturday, May 3, at the Pediatric Academic Society's annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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