NBC News
By: Elizabeth Chuck
Raquel Cruz has a lot of stress in her life. A single mother of three daughters, she is the manager of a small health clinic and is going to school full-time for an education degree. But her biggest stressor is worrying about health insurance.
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Last year, the number of U.S. children without health insurance jumped by 276,000 — to 3.9 million, up from a low of 3.6 million in 2016 — according to a report published last week by Georgetown University. It was the first increase in the number of uninsured children in America since 2008, when Joan Alker, the executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families and lead author of the study, started keeping track of the data.
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