A Youth Issue
The Commonwealth Fund released two reports yesterday regarding health care for young adults and health care for children.
The first report (link) looked at care for young children. Citing the growing body of evidence that proper care is critical during a child’s early development, the report noted only 57 percent of parents had their child’s development evaluated by a pediatrician. Pediatricians, in a separate survey, described time constraints and inadequate reimbursements as reasons for not being able to provide adequate developmental services. This type of reimbursement pattern is common: procedure-heavy specialties are often extremely well compensated, while others are not. The result is often harried clinic visits and inadequate counseling.
The second report (link) described young adults (19-29) as one of the “largest and fastest growing segments of the U.S. population without health insurance.” Often, young men and women lose their coverage when they graduate from high school or college and are no longer covered by their parents’ plans. In numbers: more than 13 million lacked coverage, an increase of 2.2 million. Two in five college graduates go without health care their first year out of college. The report also discusses ways of fixing this problem.
The first report (link) looked at care for young children. Citing the growing body of evidence that proper care is critical during a child’s early development, the report noted only 57 percent of parents had their child’s development evaluated by a pediatrician. Pediatricians, in a separate survey, described time constraints and inadequate reimbursements as reasons for not being able to provide adequate developmental services. This type of reimbursement pattern is common: procedure-heavy specialties are often extremely well compensated, while others are not. The result is often harried clinic visits and inadequate counseling.
The second report (link) described young adults (19-29) as one of the “largest and fastest growing segments of the U.S. population without health insurance.” Often, young men and women lose their coverage when they graduate from high school or college and are no longer covered by their parents’ plans. In numbers: more than 13 million lacked coverage, an increase of 2.2 million. Two in five college graduates go without health care their first year out of college. The report also discusses ways of fixing this problem.
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