Number of Uninsured Children Rises for First Time This Decade
 

AFTER YEARS OF STEADY decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday.


While not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured kids rose to 5 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent a year earlier — it is still striking. The uninsured rate typically remains stable or drops during times of economic growth. In September, the U.S. unemployment rate hit its lowest level since 1969.

“The nation is going backwards on insuring kids and it is likely to get worse,” said Joan Alker, co-author of the study and executive director of Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families.

Alker and other child health advocates place the blame for this change on the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, saying their policies and actions cast a pall on enrollment.



https://www.usnews.com/news/healthie...me-this-decade

Why isn't healthcare for children free? I mean ALL of it. Healthcare, dental, braces....

It's only going to get higher as whites decline and hispanics rise.

Because big pharma buys political power.

Because Republicans only care about them when they are still in the womb, once they are out they have no problem letting them starve or denying them health care.

:2 cents:

So have the Democrats disabled the private medical sector and made it free at the point of demand?

https://www.google.com/search?ei=mLx...30.tp3auytbF6U

America has the most expensive Healthcare industry in the world. While other countries have better and cheaper Healthcare with a better system.

https://nordic.businessinsider.com/t...ystems-2017-1/

https://global.april-international.c...thcare-systems

For what you pay you should have the best healthcare in the world. So why not? Easy to answer. Big Pharma buys political power to keep profits high.