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Stringfield, 31, had been laid off in October from her job as a retail manager at an Exxon-Mobil station. Her health coverage ended on Dec. 31, and she wasn’t able to immediately find insurance she could afford on her unemployment check.
Sitting at her kitchen table in Chesapeake recently with Katelyn and 3-year-old Brianna, Stringfield could only shake her head. “I don’t know. I really don’t know,” she said. “I could care less about me.”
This lady was able to get insurance for her daughter through the state.
Many cannot. Later in the same article:
Most children without coverage live in households with income less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level but with at least one adult working, according to a report from the foundation. More than 50 percent are white, and about 26 percent are black. All but a few are U.S. citizens.
