North Carolina Children Losing Health Coverage

Simon Prather
10/24/2008
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2008/1020/1020reportncchildren.php


Health care in the United States is some of the best in the world. However, how we operate our health care system varies dramatically when compared to other countries. Many countries provide a universal health care system, leaving nobody with out the means of obtaining proper health services. The universal system allows everybody equal access to the same medical help regardless of finances.
Receiving health care in the United States requires individuals to be held under an insurance plan. Often times insurance is expensive, and is something received through an employer. Recently in North Carolina families are 150% more likely than the average American to have lost medical care that was once provided through the work place. Adam Searings, director of the North Carolina Health Access Coalition at the N.C. Justice Center says "This continues to be an alarming trend that shows no sign of stopping"
When adults are cut from their employer's insurance programs, their children, spouses, and other direct family members are also cut. This seems to affect lower income families more so than any other. People in the bottom 20% of house hold earnings were the least likely to be covered.
I feel like it is a shame that such a great nation such as the United States fails to deliver an equal, simple, affordable health care service to all the people. The state of North Carolina is working on initiatives to secure health care coverage to children regardless of parental employers. Maybe health care in this country needs to get worse for some, before it can get better for all.