Demand for Medical Services among Previously Uninsured Children:

We wish to acknowledge the assistance that we received from the following people and organizations. First, we thank the University of South Carolina Rural Health Research Center, funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy, for sponsoring the study and the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the West Virginia Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for agreeing to provide their data for this project. In West Virginia, Sharon Carte, Director of CHIP, and Sally K. Richardson, Executive Director of the West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research, were instrumental in this regard. We also thank Pete Bailey and Beth Corley at the South Carolina State Budget and Control Board, Office of Statistics, for preparing the data used for the South Carolina portion of the study, as well as Mike Madalena for his role in preparing data for the West Virginia section. We are very grateful for their help with this project. Funding acknowledgment