From Huffington Post

By Gene Lewit

Late last year, while official Washington and its pundits were busy deconstructing the failure of the “Super Committee” and the rest of us were planning our holiday celebrations, the National Center for Health Statistics quietly released its 2011 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. Among other things, the data contained good news about the nation’s health insurance coverage rates.

In particular, the statistics around children’s coverage were remarkable. According to the NHIS, because of continued growth in Medical and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the percent of children under age 18 who were uninsured in the first half of 2011 was just 7.3 percent, down from 7.8 percent in 2010. This is the lowest uninsured rate for children ever recorded and represents a 47 percent decline since CHIP was enacted in 1997.

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