Fewer Florida children uninsured in 2014

Herald Tribune 

By Maggie Clark

October 29th, 2015

Despite chart-topping insurance signups up through the Affordable Care Act and record-breaking Medicaid enrollment last year, hundreds of thousands of Florida children still went without insurance coverage in 2014, according to newly released U.S. Census data on health insurance status.

Last year, 377,987 Florida children were uninsured. Florida ranked 49th out of 51 states and Washington, D.C., for the number of uninsured children in 2014, in an analysis conducted by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. That equates to about 9.3 percent of all Florida children

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