Health Affairs, 23, no. 5 (2004): 112 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.23.5.112 © 2004 by Project HOPE	New Online   Senate Health Reform Bill   Rewarding Providers   Public Option Policy Brief   Health Reform & Abortion   Delivery System Reform

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Investing In Children

PROLOGUE

Investing In Children’s Health And Health Care

PROLOGUE: The health needs of children differ so widely from those of adults or the elderly that most comparisons are not very meaningful. But in some ways, changes over time in relative resource allocations for these age groups may signal dangers that Americans can ill afford to ignore. Economic and demographic changes have raised the overall average wealth of the elderly in recent decades, while poverty has risen among children by many measures. Public budgets and informal private cross-subsidies for health care have been under severe pressure from rising costs, posing particular risks for dependent populations at both extremes of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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