Today health insurance for Texas children and their families begins working a little better. More children who are sick will get coverage they need, even if they have a so-called "pre-existing condition,” something like asthma or even cancer, which led insurers previously to deny them care. More insurance plans will fully cover preventative care, like vaccines and screenings, for the youngest Texans, mothers-to-be, and others. More families will be able to keep their college-aged and young adult children on the family health care plan. In short, some of the things that were making children in this country less healthy than their counterparts in other well-off nations get addressed today with protections that go into effect under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
There are a lot of good online resources you can check out to learn more about the new protections and what’s to come for health care. Here are four:
(Hat tip to Voices for America’s Children for pointing all these great resources our way.)
And, of course, a final reminder: there are more than half a million uninsured children in Texas who don’t have to wait for health care reform to get implemented in order to get care. That’s because they already qualify for CHIP and Children’s Medicaid, but their families either may not know yet or they may need some help navigating red tape in Texas’s eligibility and enrollment system. You can help get those kids connected to coverage right now, and make today an even bigger day for health insurance and children.
