By Brian Kirk
October 28th, 2015
Florida children without health insurance declined by 1.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, leaving 9.3 percent of Florida’s children still uninsured. Despite this improvement, 378,000 kids in Florida — approximately one out of every 10 Florida children — do not have quality health coverage, according to a new report by KidsWell Florida and Georgetown University Center for Children based on U.S. Census Bureau data.
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“Offering Medicaid coverage to more uninsured parents will help reduce the number of uninsured children in Florida,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University research center. “Children thrive when their parents are healthy and economically secure so improvements in health coverage for parents benefits the whole family.”
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