were found to be at a 28% higher risk of asthma readmission than African American children with commercial insurance Subsequently, Liu and Pearlman (2009) found that the readmission rate of pediatric asthma children insured by Medicaid was 40% higher than children with private insurance in a fully adjusted model. More recently, Kenyon et al. (2014) confirmed this findings in a study of44,204 US children which found that 20-30% higher readmission rates were associated with public insurance at time intervals delineated by 6 180 and 365 days after index asthma admission.