Uninsured Rural Families

Covering the remaining uninsured children: almost half of uninsured children live in immigrant families.

OBJECTIVE Previous authors have answered "how many children in immigrant families are uninsured"; we do not know the inverse: "how many uninsured children live in immigrant families." This paper will show the total contribution of having an immigrant parent to the uninsured rate for children in the United States. DATA SOURCE Secondary data from the 2008-2010 American Community Survey. STUDY...

Health care access and use among the rural uninsured.

The uninsured have poorer access to care and obtain care at greater acuity than those with health insurance; however, the differential impact of being uninsured in rural versus urban areas is largely unknown. Using data from the 2002-2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we examine whether uninsured rural residents have different patterns of health care use than their urban counterparts, and t...

The Causes and Consequences of the Rural Uninsured and Underinsured

Numerous reports have documented the problems of adequate insurance coverage. Among them, a 2004 report of the Center for Rural Affairs entitled Health Care in Rural America outlines the parameters of the problem for rural citizens. This report continues the discussion by examining some recent research that delves into the causes and consequences of inadequate health care financing in rural areas.

Petroleum poisoning in two rural families.

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...