Colorado Children’s Campaign

By: Erin Miller

An estimated 73,000 Colorado children were uninsured last year, a number that has increased about 28 percent since 2016, according to a new report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. This means that 73,000 Colorado kids went into the economic and public health crises caused by COVID-19 without the financial protection and access to health services provided by health insurance coverage.  Colorado’s experience is part of a national trend that has left an estimated 726,000 more children without health coverage nationwide since President Trump took office. Coverage losses in the U.S. have been concentrated in the South and West and have been largest for White and Latino children. A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows that while children’s health coverage had been a national success story, the trend has reversed under the Trump administration.  

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