Health coverage expert to speak in Rockledge

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By: Jamie Desena-McFarland

A timely lecture at the Space Coast Health Foundation’s Center for Collaboration will address health insurance in Florida, with a focus on children and families. Though it’s been in the works for about a year, the event comes just about a month after the U.S. Census Bureau issued a report that showed that 12.9 percent of Florida’s population was uninsured in 2017 – an increase from 12.5 percent in 2016 and higher than the national average of 8.8 percent. The lecture will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 1100 Rockledge Blvd. Joan Alker, an expert on health coverage issues affecting low-income families, will be the keynote speaker. “Alker will unpack newly released data and propose some solutions on Florida’s uninsured rate, a number that had been on the decline but recently increased,” a press release stated. Ms. Alker is a research professor and executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

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