Health care group says 132,000 SC children are uninsured

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Health care group says 132,000 SC children are uninsured

Story Published: Nov 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM EDT

Story Updated: Nov 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A national health care advocacy group says
more than 12 percent of South Carolina children have no health
insurance.

Families USA said at a news conference Tuesday that 132,000 children were uninsured from 2005 through 2007 about 30 percent
more than were without health insurance from 2003 through 2005.

South Carolina legislators last year approved expanding a Medicaid program to provide health care to 60,000 children of families with incomes between 150 percent and 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

The executive director of the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center says the state is not doing enough to enroll kids in the program.

The state Health and Human Services Department says 8,300 children have enrolled since the program started in April.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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