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Kansas and the rest of the country saw the number of uninsured children drop to historic lows in 2016, according to a new report.
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found fewer than five percent of children nationwide are uninsured. In Kansas, the rate dropped from 5.1 percent in 2015 to 4.3 percent in 2016, and it’s a nearly 30-percent drop from 2013.
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Georgetown report author Joan Alker is executive director of the organization. She says the bill in Congress does nothing to address the actual drivers of health-care costs.
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