Uninsured but Eligible Children
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Many children remain uninsured and not eligible for Medi-Cal and Health Families.
A Publication of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Approximately 275,000 children ages 0-17 from families with incomes below 300% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) were uninsured and not eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families in 2001. A majority of the uninsured-and-not-eligible children were between the ages of six and 17, while only onein seven were between the ages of zero and f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0025-7079
DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0b013e31815b97ac