Dallas Observer

By: Lucas Manfield

Nearly a fifth of the nation’s youngest uninsured children live in Texas, a stark reminder that the state has some of the most restrictive policies in the nation governing healthcare benefits for its most vulnerable residents. More than 8% of Texan children under the age of 6 are not insured, according to a report released Wednesday by Georgetown University researchers. That’s almost double the national rate. The report is not surprising… Still, Elisabeth Wright Burak, one of the report’s authors, called the study’s results “very sobering,” citing the recent reversal in a decade-long trend of falling uninsured rates.

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