Tonight in Health Watch: More than nine million U.S. children are uninsured.But many of those children are from families with working parents who do have health insurance. A study on uninsured children who have at least one insured parent appears this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It found about three percent of children in the United States are uninsured with an insured parent. That translates to over three million children. Dr. Jennifer DeVoe says, 'The largest predictor of children being uninsured, with an insured parent, was being in the middle income...earning somewhere between about 25,000 and 75,000 dollars a year, for a family of four. 'Some family incomes are too high for the kids to qualify for state insurance programs... but not high enough for parents to afford to add their children to employer-sponsored policies. Other families qualify for state programs, but don't sign up for one reason or another.For more information about this study you can log on to jama.com at our featured Links.








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