Public News Service New Mexico
By Eric Galatas
October 29th, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – More children in New Mexico and around the nation now have health coverage. According to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the rate of uninsured children dropped to a historic low of six percent nationally in 2014, the year the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect.
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The report demonstrates that after the rollout of the ACA, 25 states recorded declines in the number of uninsured children, and no state showed significant increases. Report co-author Joan Alker, executive director at Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families, says the study confirms that years of work by policymakers and other stakeholders to reform health care in the U.S. is starting to pay off.
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