Linda Wolfe Quotes (3 Quotes)

Our children in poverty are eligible for Medicaid if their parents have signed them up. A routine physical may be a money issue for some people, but we have the Delaware Healthy Children's Program that supplements Medicaid for families within 200 percent of the 19,350 that has been set as the poverty level for a family of four. It's one of the most generous in the country, and kids who are eligible get free medical services.

I was a school nurse, and I can tell you that I sent many, many letters to parents telling them about problems and recommending that they take their children to a doctor. I know that many families never followed up.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.