Daytona Beach News-Journal

By: Nikki Ross

When Kristina Marty moved to Daytona Beach in 2017 from Rhode Island, she had no idea her decision would cost her four children their free health insurance.

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The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families in November issued a report that showed about 325,000 uninsured children in Florida in 2017, up from 288,000 in 2016. The numbers means Florida ranks as the second-highest state for uninsured children. Florida’s overall uninsured rate for children is at 7.3 percent while the national average sits at 5 percent. But the number of uninsured children nationally also increased from 3.649 million in 2016 to 3.925 million last year, the first time in nearly a decade the numbers have increased, according to the report.

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