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Ohio Study Shows That Insurance Coverage Is Critical For Children With Special Health Care Needs As They Transition To Adulthood.
- Source :
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Health Affairs . Dec2011, Vol. 30 Issue 12, p2382-2390. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Nearly 30 percent of young adults with special health care needs in Ohio lack health insurance, compared to 5 percent of the state's children with special health care needs. As children with such needs become too old for Medicaid or insurance through their parents' employer, they face great challenges in obtaining insurance. Lack of insurance is highly predictive of unmet needs, which in turn are predictive of costly hospital-based encounters. Young adults with special health care needs who are uninsured are more than twice as likely as their peers with insurance to forgo filling prescriptions and getting care and to have problems getting care. Even after insurance status is accounted for, young adults with special health care needs are more likely than children with such needs to not fill prescriptions because of cost and to delay or forgo needed care. This study demonstrates that continuous and adequate health insurance is vital to the continued well- being of children with special health care needs as they transition to young adulthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SURVEYS
*AGE distribution
*COMPARATIVE studies
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*CONTINUUM of care
*EPIDEMIOLOGY
*HEALTH services accessibility
*INSURANCE
*MEDICAID
*MEDICALLY uninsured persons
*RESEARCH funding
*ELIGIBILITY (Social aspects)
*DATA analysis
*CHILDREN with disabilities
*SECONDARY analysis
*AT-risk people
*PREDICTIVE validity
*TRANSITIONAL programs (Education)
PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02782715
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Affairs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 70605358
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0641