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Arizona Child Health Insurance Rates Third Worst in The Nation

Phoenix New Times

By Elizabeth Stuart

October 30th, 2015

The percentage of Arizona children who don’t have health insurance is shrinking, but, for the fifth year in a row, the state remains among the worst in the nation for access to care, according to a new report from Georgetown University.

Ten percent of Arizona children were uninsured in 2014, which is nearly 2 percent less than 2013, reported Joan Alker and Alisa Chester, of Georgetown’s Center For Children  and Families. At the same time, the national average dropped from 7.1 percent to a historic low of 6 percent.

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