Iowa's cost for health insurance for kids to balloon from $7 million to $37 million

Des Moines Register: It’s about to cost Iowa a lot more to provide health insurance to 70,000 children from moderate-income families.

The state’s share of the cost for kids in the HAWK-I program is set to more than quintuple in the next two years, from $7 million to $37 million. Iowa legislators, who already face tight budgets, will have to find that money to keep the popular program going.

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