American Academy of Pediatrics
Children who lose employer-based health insurance risk remaining uninsured
Published in Managed Care Law Weekly, June 12th, 2005
For more than 2 million children each year, their parents losing employer-based health insurance means becoming uninsured. Among an estimated 3 million children who lose employer-based health insurance annually, 75% subsequently become uninsured, and almost a million remain uninsured for a year or longer, according to the presentation "When children lose employer-based health insurance coverage."
The presentation, delivered at the 2005 Pediatric Academic Societies' meeting in Washington, DC, is based on results of a study of more than 18,000 records of children obtained from 6 years of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data, from 1996-2001.
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