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Texas Children’s delivers health care on wheels aboard the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile

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Traveling Texas Children’s Hospital health care professionals provide much-needed vaccinations and checkups to uninsured children in the Houston area through the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile.

Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people 18 and younger as well as the most uninsured children of any state—872,794 in 2018. Harris County ranks first among the nation’s counties for the number of uninsured children, according to a 2019 U.S. Census Bureau-based report by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. Nearly 170,000 children without health coverage lived in Harris County in 2018.

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