Community Health Project
Community Health Project: Insure all of North Carolina
The Facts:
- 1.4 million Residents lack health insurance in NC.
- 1 in 8 children in NC do not have health insurance.
- 11.9% of our children have no health insurance and an additional 39.3 currently rely on health choice or Medicaid.
- Uninsured individuals in NC generate 1.3 billion dollars of hospital cost per year largely repaid through our taxes and increased charges to the general population. If trends continue the uninsured will have a tab of more than $1.8 billion dollars per year by 2010.
- In NC 83% of the voting age population agreed that “The state legislature should make a plan so that all NC residents can get decent health care on a regular basis”
What you can do….
- Learn more about who’s insured and how the state of NC helps to insure its citizens here.
- Be involved in the Back to School Campaign to sign up our eligible, uninsured children of North Carolina.
- Plan an Awareness Event. Download A Guide to Planning a Health and Enrollment Fair.
- Bring information to already planned events in your area. Order FREE materials online.
- Get informed about legislature affecting the uninsured in NC at both www.ncchild.org (specifically about insuring our children) and www.healthcareforallnc.org
- Get out and VOTE! It makes a difference.
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