High co-pays linked to increased health risks for kids with asthma

March 28, 2012
MinnPost
By Susan Perry

When parents have high health-insurance co-pays, their school-age children with asthma are less likely to receive prescribed medication for their illness. Those children are also more likely to be hospitalized for an asthma-related condition, according to a University of Minnesota study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“There has been a trend toward more and more families paying out of pocket,” said Pinar Karaca-Mandic, the study’s lead researcher and an assistant professor of health policy and management at the U of M, in a phone interview. “We know that adults often respond by forgoing care. We wanted to see if this was the case with needed health care for their children.” Read more

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