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Top 5 Reasons Health Insurance Matters for Infants and Toddlers and Their Families

Summary

Health care is crucial to infants and toddlers’ physical, cognitive, and emotional development. For low-income families, affordable health insurance provides young children and their parents with important services that would otherwise be too expensive, such as routine check-ups, prescription drugs, medical procedures, and specialized care.

 

Source: The Center for Law and Social Policy (2017). Top 5 Reasons Health Insurance Matters for Infants and Toddlers and Their Families.