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ilîl’^jîtirtlaxtô (ßhscruer August 3. 2005 EMBRACING DIVERSITY H ealth Page A9 REVIVAL REVIVAL REVIVAL NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Many Families Lack Health Insurance 1237 NE FAILING ST (corner o f 13th) PORTLAND, OREGON 97212 503-284-7594 A ugust 7, 2005 - 11:30 AM & 7:30 PM Now impacts millions of people of all colors No Service M onday, A ugust 8, 2005 Service will continue August 9 - August 11, 2005 7:30 PM N IG H TLY (AP) — For every child who lacks health insurance, another has gaps in coverage and is just as likely to miss out on seeing a doctor or getting a prescription refilled, suggests a new compre hensive study of federal data. The research also reveals some surprises: About four out of five children with insurance cover age gaps have parents who work; two-thirds of them live with both parents; and more than half are CONDUCTED BY EVANGELIST DEBBIE JONES LIVELY HOPE CHURCH SPANAWAY, WASHINGTON white. At least 9 m illion U.S. ch il dren, or about 12 percent, lack health insurance, based on a federal survey in 2003. R e searchers who produced the latest study say that num ber is likely higher because many kids who lack health insurance dur ing part o f th e ir childhood aren ’t included in that number. M any stu d ies have d o c u mented the health barriers faced by uninsured children, such as missing regular checkups and v isitin g h o sp ital em ergency rooms for routine care. But this is one of the few analyses of what happens to children when their families have intermittent cover ELDER LEON BRKWI R JR. HOST PASTOR COME EXPECTING ft BLESSING! “I can't afford to add on the additional medical and dental insurance it takes to take care of my children,’ laments Marian Blackmon o f Jackson, Miss. /A telephone operator, she said her children lost health coverage when her husband retired last year. (AP photo) operator in Jackson, Miss., said rushed to the em ergency room, About 58 percent of children that when her husband retired Blackmon had no choice, but to with coverage gaps were white, last year, her three sons were pay the medical bill. while 46 percent of those with dropped from his health plan. “It's very stressful,’’ said the no insurance were Hispanic. Blackmon recalled how she 43-year-old mother, who recently T hirteen percent of children avoided taking one of her 6- applied to enroll her kids in a who were insured only part of year-old twins to the pediatri public health insurance program the time missed doctor appoint cian when he becam e feverish for poor children. ments and one in 10 did not get The researchers found that the prescriptions refilled because of because she did not want to pay out-of-pocket for the visit. children with intermittent cover the cost - percentages virtually But when 12-year-old Nicholas age were more likely to postpone equal to those for uninsured age. Marian Blackmon, a telephone fell off a horse last year and was medical care than uninsured kids. children. 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