Louisiana Facts-

1. Most LaCHIP families have at least one working parent.

2. The percentage of Louisiana's non-elderly population (under age 65) without health insurance coverage in 1998 was 21.5 percent. This was higher than the national rate of 18.4percent.

3. Children living in Louisiana -infants through age 17- had a lower rate of employment -based health insurance coverage, 55.2 percent, than the national rate, 60.2 percent.

4. Children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level were the most likely to be uninsured, 24.9 percent.

5. Louisiana workers had a lower rate of employment-based health insurance coverage, 71.6 percent, than the national rate, 72.8 percent.

Source: www.ebri.org/facts/0700fact2.htm

Brushing Up on Children’s Oral Health in Louisiana

Children’s oral health is an epidemic. Dental care is the most prevalent
unmet health need of children in the United States 1 Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood. It occurs five times more frequently than asthma and seven times more frequently than hay fever. 2 It is a tragedy that children’s suffering, as a result of untreated oral disease, is almost entirely preventable. Read more:

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