Northern Kentucky Tribune
By: Melissa Patrick
For the first time in nearly a decade, the number of uninsured children in the United States and Kentucky increased, according to a report from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. From 2016 to 2017, the number of uninsured U.S. children rose by 276,000, to nearly 4 million. About 5 percent of the nation’s children were uninsured in 2017, up from 4.7 percent in 2016. In Kentucky, 6,000 fewer children had health insurance in 2017, for a total of 41,000. That’s an increase to 3.8 percent, up from 3.3 percent in 2016.
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