By HealthDay News
Published: February 24, 2010
As many as 6 million children in the United States have asthma. Health care for these kids can cost an average of 50 percent more than for other children, according to a new report from George Washington University.
But the report also suggests that United States could lower the number of uninsured children with asthma by 75 percent by enrolling all those who are eligible for federally funded insurance programs and expanding eligibility.
"Childhood asthma presents one of the nation's starkest examples of what is wrong with the health-care system. Even as more than 1 million children with asthma lack coverage, the nation is squandering health-care dollars on costly treatment while missing key prevention opportunities," Sara Rosenbaum, chairwoman of the department of health policy at George Washington University and co-lead author of the report, said in a news release from the school.
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