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Title: Families with Young Children Experienced Coverage Gains between 2019 and 2022
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Publication Year: 2024
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Abstract: Health insurance coverage for both children and their parents can facilitate access to affordable health care, protect families' economic security, enhance families' overall well-being, and promote children's healthy development During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), numerous federal and state policies were enacted to protect access to affordable health insurance coverage, including a continuous coverage requirement in Medicaid that maintained enrollment for all enrollees between March 2020 and March 2024 and enhanced Marketplace subsidies beginning in 2021. 1 Prior research has shown that uninsurance fell during this period for both children and nonelderly adults (Lee et al. 2022; Haley et al. 2022; McMorrow et al. 2022). 2 Access to affordable health care is particularly critical in the perinatal period and during early childhood, given high and inequitable risks of infant mortality and maternal morbidity and mortality and the important physical, cognitive, and socio-development occurring in children under age 3 (Center on the Developing Child 2010; Declercq and Zephyrin 2021; Ely and Driscoll 2023; Gunja, Gumas, and Williams 2023; Lipkin and Macias 2020). We focus on coverage among children under age 3 and their custodial parents, hereafter referred to as young children and their parents.
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Authors: Haley, Jennifer M; Kenney, Genevieve M; Pancini, Vincent
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Population Health and Health Systems
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