Nearly 83,000 Tennessee kids had no health insurance in 2018, Census says

Oct. 1, 2019 | Brett Kelman | Nashville Tennessean


  • The rate of uninsured children is the highest since the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
  • 83,000 kids don’t have insurance in Tennessee.
  • The rate of uninsured children is growing year by year since 2017, up 33% since then.
  • Simultaneously, 100,000 kids were kicked off of TennCare benefits.

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