By Jeff Stein
October 29th, 2015
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thanks to expanded health coverage opportunities, there are 5,000 more Arkansas children with health insurance. A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families says that’s a 13.2 percent drop in the number of uninsured children in just one year.
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Report co-author Joan Alker, executive director at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families, says the study shows a distinction between rural and urban areas. “Rural areas have higher rates of uninsured children than urban areas, and interestingly it’s not the poorest children with the highest rate of uninsurance,” she says. “It’s that group just above poverty, the low-wage working families, that have the highest rate of uninsured kids.”
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