Tens of thousands of Granite Staters lost their health insurance as a result of layoffs during the pandemic and the numbers could keep getting worse. An estimated 96,000 people, or 11% of New Hampshire's adult population, are now uninsured, an increase of 3% from 2018, according to a recent report from the National Center for Coverage Innovation. Elliott Fisher, an epidemiologist and a public health researcher at The Dartmouth Institute warned it could be higher as the study only looked at data until May.
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