• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Health / Medicine / Report says five percent of Iowa kids uninsured

Report says five percent of Iowa kids uninsured

November 24, 2008 By admin

A new analysis concludes just over five percent of kids in Iowa are uninsured. "Families U.S.A." executive director Ron Pollack says his group’s analysis covers data from 2005, 2006 and 2007, so there are probably more uninsured kids in Iowa today due to this year’s economic downturn.

"Iowa has the second-lowest rate in the country of uninsured children so Iowa does a lot better than other states across the country," Pollack says, "but it’s still no consolation for the 38,000 in the state who are uninsured." Nearly all of the 38,000 uninsured children in Iowa live in a family where at least one parent works full-time, all year long and Mike Owen of the Iowa Policy Project says that’s significant.

"These are children in working families," Owen says. "These are children in families that do not have access to health care coverage through their employment." In March of 2009, the federal government’s support of state children’s health insurance program will expire and Congressman Leonard Boswell, a Democrat from Des Moines, expects the new president to support extending it.

"I just have to say I’m looking forward to working with President-elect Obama to make health care access to all children — and adults — a reality and I think I may get to see that," Boswell says. "That’s my hope." Just under half of the uninsured Iowa kids live in families that currently qualify for government-paid health insurance for those kids through the state’s HAWK-I program, but their parents haven’t signed them up for it.

You can read the Families USA report online. Families U.S.A. bills itself as a group that lobbies for health care consumers.

 

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Health / Medicine Tagged With: Insurance

Featured Stories

Iowa delegation breaks along party lines on Trump impeachment vote

Two northeast Iowa men admit to illegally harvesting ginseng

Do you have to pay tax on your stimulus check?

All six in Iowa’s congressional delegation confirm Electoral College results

Some derecho victims eligible for federal tax breaks

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa-Michigan State postponed

Fire damage to Riverfront Stadium electrical system will cost Waterloo thousands

Iowa State at Kansas State postponed

Iowa State’s Foster to miss remainder of the season

Drake basketball season put on hold

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC