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Warner, Booker reintroduce legislation to lower prescription drug costs for children

Warner, Booker reintroduce legislation to lower prescription drug costs for children
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Latino children twice as likely to be uninsured: analysis

Latino children twice as likely to be uninsured: analysis Jordan Williams © iStock Latino children twice as likely to be uninsured: analysis The number of Latino children without health insurance is twice as high as non-Latino children, according to an analysis from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute s Center for Children and Families. The uninsured rate for Latino children reached 9.3 percent in 2019, compared to 4.4 percent of non-Latino youth the same year, according to the analysis dated June 8. The uninsured rate increased by 1.6 percent between 2016 and 2019 among Latino children, compared to the 0.7 percent increase for non-Latino youth. As of 2019, there were 1.83 million uninsured Latino children in the country, a 354,400-person increase over the the same figure in 2016.

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Protecting all children: Promoting health equity by insuring undocumented children

Protecting all children: Promoting health equity by insuring undocumented children The General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee has favorably voted out S.B. 956, An Act Providing Medical Assistance to Certain Individuals Regardless of Immigration Status. The state, not surprisingly, has countered with a fiscal note that presents a two-year cost-estimate of $267 million to $374 million. But what if the cost of gradually insuring everyone who is eligible for health insurance in the state but for their immigration status works out to less than ten percent of that amount? Wouldn’t that be an investment that Connecticut’s policymakers should consider? Jay Sicklick

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