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Nearly 15 percent of children in the United States are inadequately insured because they lack health insurance for all or part of the year. In this issue of the Journal, Olson and colleagues¹ describe the potent effect of inadequate insurance coverage on several aspects of access to services. They also examine several other effects of inadequate insurance coverage. Olson et al. characterized insurance coverage as full-year, part-year, or none and as private or public. The manifestations of compromised access to services were delays in seeking care, unmet medical care needs, unfilled prescriptions, no visits to doctors' offices, the lack of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

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