Question by the girl with kaleidoscope eyes: So abortion is cruel, but uninsured American children don’t deserve health care because that’s “socialism”?
-28,000 American infants die before they reach their first birthday
-Uninsured children are almost 9 times as likely to have a medical need that goes unmet than a child with health coverage, and are 5 times as likely as an insured child to go more than 2 years without seeing a doctor. Regular health screenings help doctors identify and treat problems preventively and are crucial to a child’s healthy development.
-An estimated two-thirds of children and youth with mental health needs are not getting the help they need. In fact, unmet need is as high today as it was 20 years ago. Children without mental health coverage are at risk of entering the Pipeline.
-Uninsured children are more than 4 times as likely as an insured child to have an unmet dental health need. In 2000, children missed more than 51 million hours of school because of dental-related illness.
-Uninsured children are more likely than insured children to perform poorly in school; in contrast, enrolling children in health coverage has been associated with greatly improved school performance.
1st of all, I don’t have kids, i’m 18, but I guess in your family thats the old age for having kids…
-Uninsured children come from working families. The vast majority of uninsured children (88.2 percent) come from families where at least one parent works, and more than two-thirds of uninsured children—or 68.5 percent—live in households where at least one family member works full-time, year-round.
So no, its not because of lazy parents.

-The five states with the largest number of uninsured children are Texas, California, Florida, New York, and Georgia. Together, the uninsured children in these five states account for nearly half of all uninsured children in the country (48.3 percent).

So its not only the “crazy liberal left wing” states…

I mean geez, even if the parent was a lazy bum, does the child deserve to suffer?
Why does everyone think I have kids?? Is 18 the average Conservative age for having kids? LMAO

Best answer:

Answer by No Pinheads
Awwwww too bad, I work to PAY for my kids insurance, try it sometime

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Question by Benjamin: What percent of illegal immigrant children don’t have health insurance?
If you know the percent who don’t have health care in California that would be even better. California is proposing an initiative that would raise cigarette taxes to $ 3.47/pack in part to pay for health, dental and vision benefits for illegal immigrant children.
Chloe, no I didn’t say that a pack of cigs is going to be $ 3.47, I said that the TAX ALONE is going to be $ 3.47. That will make it about $ 7 a pack in all, on average.
And also Chloe, no I didn’t make this up … you can google it, it’s all over the net. Here’s what the nonpartisan legislative analysts office said: (this information is in your state supplied voter guide if you live in California): “Almost one-half of these funds would be allocated to expand the HFP (Healthy Families Program) to provide health coverage to include (1) children from families with income between 250 percent and 300 percent of the FPL and (2) CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES WITH INCOMES UP TO 300 PERCENT OF THE FPL WHO ARE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS OR LEGAL IMMIGRANTS NOT NOW ELLIGIBLE FOR HFP.

Best answer:

Answer by ruth “the meanie-head”
Great. Our US children have an incredibly high rate of being uninsured.

Let’s insure illegal children first!

Because it’s the NICE thing to do…

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