Child coverage still on upward trend; adult coverage declines.(The Uninsured)
Publication: Medicine & Health
Publication Date: 05-JUL-04
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The percentage of American children who lack health-care coverage continued its six-year decline in 2003. That's according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics' National Health Interview Survey. The 2002-to-2003 drop in children who were uninsured at the time of the interview was a statistically non-significant decrease from 10.5 percent 10.1 percent.
Between 1997--when the State Children's Health Insurance Program was enacted--and 2003, the number of children reported uninsured...
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