Politico
By: Dan Diamond
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families released a new research paper on the historically high children’s insurance rate: 95% as of 2015. However, the research also examined seven states where children are still uninsured and how they still have room to decline those rates.
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Children’s insurance rate hits new historic high. The rate stood at 95 percent at the end of last year, according to a new paper from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Between 2013 and 2015, 41 states saw a statistically significant decline in the rate of uninsured children. Just over half of the 3.5 million children who are still uninsured live in seven states: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas (although it should be noted that as of May, California began enrolling undocumented children into the state’s Medicaid program). Read the paper here.
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