Special-needs children struggle with health care coverage, access: budget pressures mean problem may not improve anytime soon.(Access To Care)

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Federal and state politicians are considering cuts to public health insurance programs that, in many cases, are still not covering more than 650,000 sick and disabled children. And if legislatures do pass cuts, children's health care access will only get worse, suggests a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

"Public health insurance clearly provides a critical safety net to millions of children with special health care needs, but hundreds of thousands of these medically vulnerable children remain uninsured," HSC's president Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D. said in a statement.

In 2003, Medicaid or...

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