Quality of Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Children in Low-Income Families.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

An increasing diversity of children's health coverage options under the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, together with uncertainty regarding reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beyond 2017, merits renewed attention on the quality of these options for children.

Objective

To compare health care access, quality, and cost outcomes by insurance type (Medicaid, CHIP, private, and uninsured) for children in households with low to moderate incomes.

Design, setting, and participants

A repeated cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the 2003, 2007, and 2011-2012 US National Surveys of Children's Health, comprising 80,655 children 17 years or younger, weighted to 67 million children nationally, with household

SUBMITTER: Kreider AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011294 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature