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Prevention is better than cure, especially for children. Maintaining access to affordable health care coverage empowers them to thrive. However, as a result of Medicaid unwinding, children are losing health care coverage at alarming rates. As of February 1, 2024, 2,898,000 children across the United States have lost access to Medicaid through the unwinding process.
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Images of Flint Michigan’s water are hard to forget. For months in 2016, residents drank from taps running gasoline-colored liquid and water bottles filled with murky sludge, but one contaminant grabbed the headlines: lead. Blood lead levels (BLLs) among Flint’s children doubled citywide and even tripled in certain neighborhoods just months after the crisis began.
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Mashup Score: 0The Mystery of Federal Pediatric Mental Health Funding: What We Don’t Know & Why It Matters - First Focus on Children - 3 month(s) ago
Around the time of the U.S. Surgeon General’s report alerting the country to the crisis in mental health for American children, teens, and young adults in December 2021, there was a collective awakening about the magnitude of this problem. Suicide rates were climbing, teens were showing up with behavioral health issues in emergency rooms at
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Mashup Score: 0Celebrating 12 Months of Continuous Coverage for Children in Medicaid and CHIP - First Focus on Children - 4 month(s) ago
As the calendar turned to 2024, a milestone arrived in children’s health care. As of January 1st, every state in the U.S. is required to provide 12 months of continuous eligibility for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This means that, for the first time, millions of children will have
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Amazing things can happen when humanity does the right thing and puts children first. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s when I was growing up in the developing world, the chances of a child living past her 5th birthday were tenuous at best. Despite the rapid public health achievements over the previous century for
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Mashup Score: 9Speaking of Kids... Podcast - 6 month(s) ago
A podcast from First Focus on Children, that uncovers why children are an afterthought in politics & how we can unify our efforts to demand change that will improve the well-being of all our kids.
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Mashup Score: 0Children are only group to lose health insurance, Census numbers show - First Focus on Children - 8 month(s) ago
Rates to rise further as Medicaid “unwinding” continues The number of children without health insurance rose in 2022, according to government figures released today, making children the only group in the country to experience an increase in loss of coverage. In 2022, more than 4 million children — or 5.4% of all U.S. children —
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From Uninsured Nightmare to Healthy Future: The Need for Multiyear Continuous Eligibility for Kids Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP - Abuko Estrada and @AbbieMalloy_ - https://t.co/T7SwyzukJu #ChildHealth https://t.co/j55CgZCMJJ