Delays Hamper Health Care for Special Needs Children
Surveys and other data indicate that children with special health care needs often face significant waits for consultations with pediatric specialists, and those waits are growing longer because of a worsening shortage of pediatric specialists. Moreover, pediatric specialists are moving out of California because of cuts to Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, the state's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program, respectively.
- "Ethnic Special Needs Children Face Longer Wait for Health Care" (Po, New America Media, 3/3).