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Article: Health insurance coverage declines: more children uninsured despite state's economic gains.
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- Montana Business Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Health insurance coverage for Montana children has decreased over the past four years, according to U.S. Census data. The percent of Montana children of all ages lacing private or public health insurance went from 14 to 16 percent over a four-year period ending in 2005. Children below the federal poverty level had some of the biggest declines in health insurance coverage, going from an uninsured rate of 19 percent four years ago to 29 percent by 2005. This change represents 4,000 more low-income children joining the ranks of Montana's uninsured.
Double-digit increases in health insurance and increased employee shares of premiums ...