KVUE By: Ashley Goudeau Goudeau: As if these cuts to ECI funding wasn’t enough, you guys are also releasing this week a study that you did in joint with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families that looked into insurance rates for children, and it doesn’t look good for Texas. Clark: “It does not […]
KELO AM-FM By: Roz Brown For the first time in a decade, the number of children without health coverage in the U.S. has gone up. According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the number of uninsured children rose by more than 275,000 in 2017, and South Dakota’s percentage […]
Osceola News-Gazette By: Charlie Reed Dec. 15 is the deadline for people — not covered by employer plans – to get healthcare insurance for 2019. There were 52,000 uninsured residents in Osceola County in 2017, according to the latest U.S. Census data. That’s about 15 percent of the total population. … Florida did not expand […]
KATV By: Zack Briggs A new study indicates youth without health insurance across the nation including Arkansas increased from 2016 to 2017. The report, which was conducted by the Georgetown University Center, shows the number of children under age 19 rose an estimated 276,000 to 3.92 million. That’s a “historic low” of 4.7 percent in […]
The Daily News of Newburyport By: Christian M. Wade The number of children without health insurance is rising in Massachusetts for the first time in years, according to a report that blames divisive national politics for the reversal. An estimated 20,000 children in the state didn’t have health insurance in 2017, an increase of about […]
PolitiFact By: Jon Greenberg The uninsurance rate is one of the main barometers for how the country is doing on health care. In that vein, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., sounded the alarm. “After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising,” Klobuchar tweeted Dec. 3. “This is very troublesome. Every child […]
