Public News Service West Virginia
By Dan Heyman
October 29th, 2015
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – More children are getting health care coverage in West Virginia and nationally than ever before, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
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Joan Alker, the center’s executive director, says the state has worked hard to get here. “Just 3 percent uninsured kids in West Virginia,” she points out. “They did some hard work to identify kids that were already receiving SNAP benefits and making sure that they were also receiving health coverage.” Alker says Georgetown found the children most likely to go without insurance live in rural areas – and children of the working poor are actually more likely to go without coverage than the very poorest.
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