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Title: Rise in Children's Uninsurance in 2017 Compounded by Rise in Parents' Uninsurance in Medicaid Nonexpansion States

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Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.1377/hblog20181218.972124

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Abstract: A recent report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families highlighted a worrisome finding from the American Community Survey (ACS): After years of declines in children’s uninsurance, the uninsurance rate among children rose from 4.7 percent in 2016 to 5.0 percent in 2017, an increase of 276,000 uninsured children nationwide. This was the first observed increase in children’s uninsurance since 2008 and consistent with other survey data finding that children’s coverage gains had flattened or started to reverse in 2017. Coverage losses for children were concentrated in states that did not expand Medicaid coverage for adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and uninsurance rose by a statistically significant margin in nine individual states, seven of which had not expanded Medicaid.

Url: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20181218.972124/full/

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Authors: Haley, Jennifer; Johnston, Emily M; Wang, Robin

Publisher: Health Affairs Blog

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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