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Title: The Questions to Ask When Assessing the Impact of Coverage Expansion Proposals on Children
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: With the outcome of the November midterm elections, the risk of federal legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and impose a cap on federal Medicaid funding has receded. Instead, there is renewed attention by some policymakers on how to once again make substantial progress toward the goal of universal coverage. This has become more urgent with recent survey data showing that the ranks of the uninsured are increasing. For example, data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) show that in 2017, the uninsured rate among children increased for the first time since at least 2008 when the ACS first asked a health insurance question. The share of children without health insurance rose from 4.7 percent to 5 percent between 2016 and 2017 and the number of uninsured children increased by 276,000.1 While the number of children with . . .
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Authors: Park, Edwin; Alker, Joan
Publisher: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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