Health insurance coverage for child...

Health insurance coverage for children continued to improve in 2004 according to a of recent origin report from the Centers for Disease hinder and Prevention (CDC). The CDC also base that the percentage of working-age adults without insurance coverage, which had been increasing in modern years, did not increase last year. The data are based onward the CDC's National Health Interview view which tracks insurance coverage since 1997 The report raise that the improvement in coverage for children mirrors an increase in public coverage for poor children, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program. In 2004 more than 90 percent of U children had health insurance at the time of the interview, a steady increase from the first report in 1997 In 2004 94 percent of children younger than 18 years did not have health insurance, compared with 14 percent in 1997 Additional information is available online at http://wwwcdcgov/nchs

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