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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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Caregivers” is designed to help the patient is at home, in an as- to 8:30 p.m. in Room 220 at the
caregivers take care of themselves sisted living or nursing facility, MHCC Maywood Park campus,
while caring for another. Persons or half way across the country. located at 10100 N.E. Prescott St.
The free class will be offered Registration is required by call
providing for the needs of a par
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benefit from this class, whether
Mt. Hood Community College
will offer a unique class this fall
designed especially for those
who support people who cannot
care for themselves.
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