December 03, 2014
By Lynn Hatter,
More than 200,000 children are now insured in Florida, yet the state has the highest rate of uninsured children in the South and the fifth highest in the nation, according the Georgetown Health Policy Institute. One way proposed to bring these numbers down is to adjust how much families pay to participate in Florida’s Health Kids insurance program:
“Florida could choose on its own to reduce or eliminate premiums for families just above where they currently pay no premiums and that would help even more,” says Joan Alker, the Executive Director of the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
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