The Christian Science Monitor
By: Christina Beck
The United Health Foundation’s 2016 Annual Report disclosed that Hawaii is the healthiest state in the United States of America for there 5th year in a row. It also reported that following Hawaii are: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Vermont. Unfortunately, it also provided the bottom five states: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
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“There are both short term and long term consequences to having children uninsured. Children who are uninsured have worse access to care, and when a child becomes uninsured, the entire family is at risk for medical debt or bankruptcy,” says Joan Alker executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the author of a report on Medicaid’s impact on children.
“In the long term, having health coverage can help children to attend school more regularly, and those children have higher graduation rates and college attendance rates, which in turn reduces their impact on societal resources when it becomes easier for these children to get jobs. There’s a definite long term return on investment.”
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