Boise State Public Radio By: James Dawson The number of uninsured children across the country has increased for the first time in more than a decade. Despite a strong economy and low unemployment, close to 4 million children in the U.S. do not have health insurance. In Utah that number by grew by 12,000 last […]
NBC News By: Elizabeth Chuck Raquel Cruz has a lot of stress in her life. A single mother of three daughters, she is the manager of a small health clinic and is going to school full-time for an education degree. But her biggest stressor is worrying about health insurance. … Last year, the number of U.S. […]
WREG News Channel 3 Arkansas is making some changes to its new Medicaid work requirement program as thousands of residents lose coverage. Medicaid recipients will be able to report the hours they work each month by telephone starting December 19, the Arkansas Department of Human Services announced Wednesday. … Consumer advocates, however, say that the […]
KUER 90.1 By: Erik Neumann For the first time in nearly a decade, fewer kids in Utah have health coverage, according to a new report from Georgetown University. KUER’s Erik Neumann spoke with Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families about the new report and what’s behind this trend. […]
Wisconsin News Connection By: Trimmel Gomes For the first time in a decade, the number of children without health coverage in the United States has gone up. According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Children and Families, the number of uninsured kids rose by more than 275,000 in 2017, and nearly […]
Missouri News Service By: Suzanne Potter About 75,000 children in Missouri lacked health insurance in 2017, or about 5.1 percent, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. That’s a small increase over 2016 and is just above the national average, which increased from 4.7 to 5 percent. The report […]
