Ensuring Access to Health Care for Children with Disabilities

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Abstract
There is a time-honored saying that the humanity of a society can be measured by how well it cares for its neediest citizens. Children with handicaps certainly constitute such a group, and it is instructive at this time of upheaval in health care to identify the strengths and weaknesses in the nation's system for providing such children with appropriate services.Estimates of the total number of young people with disabilities vary from 5 to 20 percent of the population. The 5 percent figure is based on the prevalence of certain chronic illnesses associated with high levels of functional impairment (e.g., . . .

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