Dr. Bicuspid
By: Donna Domino
Colin Reusch, senior policy analyst at Children’s Dental Health Project, and Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families, released a policy brief that deals with all the components of the ACA dental health coverage and what needs to be improved.
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The policy brief was released on September 14 by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families. It starts with good news: In the six years since the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the ACA were passed, the number of children without dental coverage has been cut by more than half. However, coverage varies greatly regarding comprehensiveness and affordability, according to the authors.
“As implemented, the benefits on paper are a stark departure from the benefits envisioned by the ACA and, certainly, from those required under Medicaid,” wrote Colin Reusch, a senior policy analyst at the Children’s Dental Health Project (CDHP), and Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families.
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