The report found that the number of children and women without insurance increased in the last year, while the number of insured men decreased. In 1998, 21.3 million women lacked coverage, an increase of 947,000, while the number of uninsured men declined by 116,000 to 23 million. The number of children lacking insurance increased by 330,000, to 11.1 million. Welfare Reform Contributed The statistics are likely to fuel criticism of the government's attempts to expand health care coverage. Despite establishment of the 1997 Children's Health Insurance Program, over 11 million children remain uninsured.
Analyst also blame welfare reform for the increasing number of women and children lacking coverage.
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