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| July 9, 2007: Kids Care Health Insurance Expansion, Wilmington Star News |
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Editorial
"Help is available, so get the word out" It's one thing for the state to have a program to help children get medical care, but quite another to get parents to enroll.
Action for Children, whose laudable goal is affordable health insurance for every North Carolina child, estimates that 177,000 uninsured children may qualify for either Medicaid or NC Health Choice for Children, a program for families whose incomes are too high for Medicaid but not more than about 200 percent of poverty level. That doesn't even count the 87,000 uninsured children above that income threshold - the advocacy group wants the state to offer affordable insurance premiums to those families. Even if that push succeeds, the bigger challenge is getting families to participate. Many of the already eligible children aren't signed up because their parents don't know about the programs or don't think they qualify. Even if they're not sure, parents should ask about coverage. And social services agencies, hospitals, schools, doctors offices and other groups that work with children should band together to get the word out. North Carolina is working to make sure needy children get medical care. But the programs only work for those who sign up. |
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