Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Yale  Yale News University of Michigan Roosevelt members at the Roosevelt Relief: Hurricane Katrina Launch Event 2007 News from the National Office Post-Election Center TI Launched Roosevelt LiveBlogs the Presidential Debate On Campus Midwest Regional Fall Policy Workshop Blum speaks at Vermont Campus Compact conference Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." — Franklin Roosevelt    Health Insurance for Undocumented Children > Roosevelt Home > Yale > Public Health > Insurance for Undocumented Children Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): All states receive federal funds to provide health insurance to poor children. These government funds (SCHIP) are matched by equal or greater state funds. While federal funds cannot be used to cover the undocumented children of immigrants, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island all provide health insurance to undocumented children using their matching funds. Connecticut has no such program, but we would be preparing a proposal for changing this. Health insurance coverage for undocumented children is important because they are just as deserving of coverage and healthcare as children of legal residents yet often receive far inferior care, if any. When SCHIP was first implemented, covered children were shown to have improved health in just one year as measured by fewer school absences because of illness as well as a number of other indicators. Healthier children are more successful in school and well children tend to have fewer health problems later in life. Group members: Hannah Lupien Kira Newman Matthew S Durstenfeld Walker S Frahm Eva M Galvan Benjamin Long Rebecca Serbin Efan Wu   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359