KMA Land – Iowa News Service
By: Roz Brown
The number of Iowa children without health care insurance is slowing inching up – a red flag, according to children’s advocates who track the impact on families… Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, says the trend of fewer children having health coverage doesn’t bode well for a nation experiencing a strong economy. “This is a time of relatively low unemployment rates, and children really should be gaining health coverage, but they’re not,” she states. “So, should an economic downturn occur, the child uninsured rate would probably increase more rapidly than what we’re seeing now.”
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