"State Launches Campaign for Free Teen Medical Insurance"
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"State Launches Campaign for Free Teen Medical
Insurance" Associated Press (www.ap.org)
(08/23/02)
Fliers have been mailed to 42 high schools in
Honolulu, where state officials say as many as 14,000 teenagers from low-income
families are eligible for free medical insurance under the third annual
back-to-school Hawaii Covering Kids campaign. Nearly 22,000 Hawaiian children
up to the age of 19 are uninsured, according to program director Barbara Luksch.
She notes that the QUEST or Medicaid Health insurance programs cover regular
medical check-ups, emergency care, immunizations, counseling, prescription drugs
and dental care. Hawaii received $35 million in federal funding for the teen
insurance project but may lose $14 million of the funding if it is not spent by
the end of September.
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