Springfield News Leader

By: Austin Huguelet

Georgetown University researchers had some bad news for the Show-Me State this past week. In a study published Monday, researchers found the percentage of young children without health insurance rose faster in Missouri than in any other state from 2016-2018, putting the state in the vanguard of a troubling nationwide trend… The researchers at Georgetown’s Health Policy Institute lamented the increases, which followed years of national improvements, because the children concerned are at ages when their brains and bodies are growing fast and need regular checkups to ensure they’re growing properly.

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