title: Financing universal health care coverage for America's children.
abstract: The Clinton administration is about to engage in finding a solution to the much-heralded bankruptcy of Medicare. Still, it is appropriate to consider that millions of this nation's children lack health insurance. A plan to provide such coverage through universal insurance would cover a set of defined benefits and be means tested at the upper end of incomes. It would create a rational replacement for a hodgepodge of entitlement programs based on actuarially sound principles. It would derive funds from current Medicaid allocations and private employer contributions for minor dependents.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frenkel
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States; D014481:United States; D019472:Universal Health Insurance