State of Children’s Health Care in Pennsylvania report

Posted by on October 29, 2012

150k PA kids have no health insurance

As part of a long-term effort to monitor the impact of health care reform on children, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children recently released its first-ever State of Children’s Health Care in Pennsylvania report.

The report shows more than 150,000 Pennsylvania children had no health insurance in 2010 and even those who are insured often lack the preventive care needed to stay healthy.

“Despite Pennsylvania’s status as a national leader in providing accessible, affordable health care to our children, there are too many areas where we still fall short,” PPC President and CEO Joan Benso said of the report’s findings.

Ensuring the health of Pennsylvania’s children is critical to the commonwealth’s social and economic wellbeing. Healthy children have better school attendance and academic performance, meaning working parents are less likely to need unexpected time off and employers benefit from a more productive, cost-effective workforce.

The report uses various health indicators to provide a data-driven snapshot of children’s health care in Pennsylvania — its successes, limitations and challenges. The inaugural report provides a baseline for future reports, which will offer year-to-year comparisons to help identify areas where the commonwealth has made gains or needs to improve.

To view the report, go here.

http://www.papartnerships.org/news/statewide-report-finds-gaps-in-health-care-for-pa-children