November 06, 2014
By Tim Morrissey and Mary Kuhlman,
MADISON, Wis. – A report from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families in Washington shows Wisconsin is losing ground in making sure children are covered by health insurance.
“We’ve gone from having the sixth-highest rate of kids with health insurance in 2008, slipping to 14th in 2013,” says Jon Peacock, research director of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families. “So we’re not doing bad, but we’re not doing nearly as well as we had been.”
Nationally, the rate of uninsured children is now around 7 percent. Joan Alker, the GCCF’s executive director, is the report’s author.
“The other interesting finding this year is that children in working families living on the brink of poverty are those that have the highest rate of uninsurance, compared to other income groups,” she points out.
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