Avruch S, Machlin S, Bonin P, Ullman F
US General Accounting Office, Washington, DC 20548, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1998 Mar;88(3):445-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.88.3.445.
This study estimated the number of uninsured children in 1993 who were eligible for Medicaid.
Data from the March 1990 and 1994 Current Population Surveys were analyzed.
At least 2.3 million Medicaid-eligible children were uninsured in 1993. These children were more likely to have a working parent than children on Medicaid. Higher proportions of uninsured children less than 6 years of age, children who lived in female-headed single-parent families, and African-American and Hispanic children were eligible for Medicaid.
Many eligible children do not enroll in Medicaid, and they differ in specific ways from enrolled children.
本研究估算了1993年符合医疗补助资格但未参保的儿童数量。
分析了1990年3月和1994年当期人口调查的数据。
1993年至少有230万符合医疗补助资格的儿童未参保。与参加医疗补助的儿童相比,这些儿童的父母更有可能有工作。年龄小于6岁的未参保儿童、生活在女性为户主的单亲家庭中的儿童、非裔美国儿童和西班牙裔儿童中符合医疗补助资格的比例更高。
许多符合资格的儿童未参加医疗补助,他们在某些特定方面与参保儿童不同。