Uninsured Kentuckians increased by 1.6 percentage points to almost 15 percent of the population. An average 569,000 Kentuckians lacked health insurance from 2005 through 2007.
...Money remains the biggest obstacle to Gov. Steve Beshear's campaign promise to insure all Kentucky children. It would require an additional $40 million from the state to cover all eligible kids.
...Those are dollars that would support health care, churn through the economy and, more important, prevent childhood health concerns from becoming lifelong disabilities.
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