The amount of children without insurance in North Carolina was already increasing by the thousands, as the economy plummeted this year. N.C. is now ranked number 6Â in the U.S. for the amount of children lacking health insurance coverage. Surprisingly, most of these children, almost 300,000, lived with working parents.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the advocacy group Families USA released these results last week. These findings increased awareness of perplexing problems concerning how and when children visit doctors. Children with serious health situations such as appendicitis and brain tumors have had to wait to be treated  because they lacked insurance. In these cases, children had to suffer from diseases that could have easily been treated if they had been detected sooner. Meanwhile the cost of care continues to increase.
Numerous parents just do not know that their children are qualified to get health coverage. Almost two-thirds of the children without insurance in North Carolina are eligible for coverage under Medicaid or the state’s child health insurance program called N.C. Health Choice. Medicaid was created by the government to insure the poor, and Health Choice, which is funded by federal and state tax money, is accessible to families with low-income who are not eligible for Medicaid, because they make more money than Medicaid allows.
In summary, more information about insurance eligibility needs to be provided to low-income families who are in dire need of health insurance. Hopefully, this will prevent more children from having to suffer needlessly from devastating diseases.
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