Children Matter Too

An editorial by Enola Quijas

Children suffer from exposer to disease everyday they are being exposed to different bacteria,
which lead to illness and more than 3.4 million children have no medical insurance and are all in
risk to death . The reason that there is 3.4 million children with no medical insurance is because
of their parents income , the society we live in the United States considers a family poor if the
annual income is 24,000 or less but more than 68 percent families are considered poor. Health
Insurance has different organizations like Medicaid , Obamacare, and CHIP all the
requirements are the same Medicaid is the help for children. The actual requirements for
Medicaid are to have an income less than 24,000 , must be a U.S citizen, all ages are covered
until the child has turn 18 and must have to re-new there insurance plan, there must be a stable,
constant income because if any changes there might be a change to the children medical
insurance. The major problem with Medicaid is that the requirements are strict and millions of
children are beginning denied the help the government offer , all because of a number in a
check , many children suffer with chronic illnesses and many parents cant support their children
so they either work double jobs to try to support their children or they really dont do anything
until their children are at risk with death. The death of children
is just a tragedy that
parents or the community shouldnt deal with.

The problem with the Medicaid organization is that children are denied because of a number
,what the community needs to do is change the requirements to the organization because it has
taken the live of more than 130,000 children and the numbers are increasing every year and that
needs to stop because children are the future to this world. what would help solve this problem
is to spread awareness to the community and being to stand up for the children and try to make
civil actions , like protest, fundraisers, make a stand to the government . With just the Medicaid
organization improving it would decrease the death rates of children and it would decrease the
rate of sick children , because there would be more job opportunities , lower taxes everything
will be about the kids. The future depends on the children , because the children are the future
without children the world would end . The solution is possible to happen it just depend on the
parents or future parents that want
the best for their children all it
Providence Hospital in El Paso , where more
takes is for them to stand up and
than 3 million children go to get cured.
change the rules .

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