An expansion in Pennsylvania’s Children’s Health Insurance Program helped add more than 15,000 children to the program in a year, according to the state Department of Insurance.

The program, one of the country’s oldest and most successful, grew by nearly 3,000 from February to April, leaving about 4 percent of children in the state without health insurance, one of the lowest percentages in the country, said George Hoover, the state’s deputy insurance commissioner. Texas has the highest percentage, according to the U.S. Census, with more than 21 percent of children uninsured.  read more »

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