Those of us who don't have health insurance know the financial toll that asthma can take on our lives. But now, newly released data shows that health insurance gaps lead to health gaps in kids with asthma.
An article published in the journal of Ambulatory Pediatrics reports on data analysis that University of Rochester researchers did with information from the National Survey of Children's Health.
They found that 13% of the children who have asthma in the US did not have health insurance at...
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