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Ensuring that children have comprehensive and continuous health insurance coverage is good not only for a child’s health and quality of life in the short-term, but also a smart investment for the long-term. On average, child health coverage is exponentially less expensive than adult coverage. Studies have demonstrated that the health care costs of children are about one-tenth the health care costs of adults.8 9 Targeted health interventions, such as providing comprehensive asthma care to children, have the potential to reduce public health care costs in short and long term, i.e. through reduced emergency room use | America s Children in Brief Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics America s Children in Brief Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2012 fl