Healthy Kids Program – Health Insurance for Children

Children are most generally carefree, and rarely stop to think that their actions may get them hurt. In addition, kids love to be around other kids, and often share germs without even realizing it. They share drinks, sneeze or cough in their hands, then touch the doorknobs at school, and they normally do not have any qualms about eating after one another. These are only some of the many, many reasons why it is important to have health insurance for your child or children, even if it is one of the student plans offered by their schools.

Single parenthood is rapidly becoming the norm, which can cause financial struggle and stress for the single parent. Many single parents want to keep health insurance for their children, but do not feel they can afford it. When cutting back expenses, health insurance is often one of the first things to go. However, no matter how costly health insurance can be, medical bills for an accident or illness can far surpass those costs. Not having insurance on your children can actually end up causing you even more financial stress than having it. Continue reading

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Pharmaceutical Companies Ignore Child Health Care in Favor of Profits!

Child health care is not only geared towards keeping a child healthy; it also concerns the care and treatment of a child after disease has stricken. Children in infancy, toddlers, and elementary schoolers are constantly getting sick, usually by some common flu or disease that strikes most kids. Care usually means a few days in the bed, soup, cough medicine, and home remedies that have worked since the Revolutionary War. These mild illnesses are to be expected: our immune systems develop resistance after exposure, but exposure comes first. By the time we are adults, our immune system has thousands of resistances, and it’s only the flu and those major diseases that endanger us. Despite the seeming susceptibility of children to common diseases, when compared to adults, children are simply more healthy. Child health care seems not to be as high a priority as adult health care. For example, every year, a million American adults are diagnosed with cancer, but no more than 13,000 children under 19 receive the same diagnosis. As might be expected, health care dollars will be directed to those million, but with little directed towards those 13,000 children with the same ailment. Continue reading

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