November 23, 2014
According to a new report from the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University revealed that efforts to insure children have stalled across the country.
Joan Alker, the center’s executive director and the author of the report, says although more children had been gaining health insurance every year, more than 5 million are still uninsured.
And Alker says in many states, progress appears to have slowed, possibly because states have focused on signing up more adults through the Affordable Care Act.
“The other interesting finding this year is that children in working families living on the brink of poverty are those that have the highest rate of uninsurance, compared to other income groups,” she said.
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