A Proposal to Provide Health Insurance to All Children and All Pregnant Women

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Abstract
Currently, about 33 million people in the United States lack health insurance.1 They include the self-employed, those employed part time, seasonal workers, the unemployed, and full-time workers whose employers offer unaffordable insurance or none at all. More than two thirds of the uninsured work full time but either are not offered employer-based health insurance or are offered insurance at a cost too high for their incomes.2 Among the uninsured are 10 to 12 million children.3 Contrary to popular misconceptions, the typical uninsured child has a working parent,4 lives in a two-parent family, and is white.2