Free or Low-Cost Health Care for Kids

Every parent wants desperately to provide for their children. One of a parent’s worst nightmares is for some sickness or accident to befall their child and they won’t have the resources to make things better.

There is no need for parents to suffer that particular nightmare any longer. Today every single state has an insurance program for infants, children and teens that either is free to parents or is available for a nominal sum each month.

It doesn’t matter if one or both parents are working and it doesn’t matter what the immigration status of the parents or the children are, each state has a program for helping infants, children and teens stay healthy.

Programs differ slightly from one state to the next, so it is important for you to check the exact qualifications for your particular state, but in most states children are covered from birth until their 19th birthday, and in most states a family of four can earn up to approximately $34,000 a year and children are still eligible.

In many states you must reregister your child for the program every 6 months to 1 year, but as long as your child is eligible your child will remain on the program until his or her 19th birthday.

Once your infant, child or teen has registered in the program, the program provides for routine and needed doctor’s visits, immunizations, prescription medications (some programs require that generic medications be prescribed if they are available), hospital stays, diagnostic testing, X-rays, lab work and much more. Most states cover the cost of eye care, dental care and most medical equipment.

This program is not a welfare program. It is in everyone’s best interest to see to it that all children, especially school-aged children, get prerequisite shots and treatments for such things as ear infections and other communicable diseases. It has also been proven that children who receive preventative care early on in life are more likely to suffer fewer illnesses later in life.