In this report, researchers noted a flaw in a federal report on health insurance in 2020 from the U.S. Census Bureau. Researchers from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families showed that data in this report, “Uninsured Rates for Children in Poverty Increased 2018–2020,” showed no statistically significant increase in the number of uninsured children over those years. But, the researchers added that the data from CPS count people as being uninsured only if they had no health insurance during the entire previous year. In 2020, about 8 million children (or 10.4% of all children) were uninsured for all or part of 2020, the Center for Children and Families explained. IN addition, the children in the poorest families were likely to be without insurance for some part of the year, the researchers noted. “The uninsured rate for children under the poverty line rose significantly from 7.8 percent in 2018 to 9.3 percent in 2020,” the researchers added.
