October 29th, 2015
ATLANTA – Georgia’s working families are among those that would benefit from an expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and almost two-thirds of them are employed, according to a report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
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Adam Searing, senior research fellow at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, says the center’s research indicates that when parents have health insurance, their children are more likely to have coverage and parents with proper medical care is better able to fulfill their responsibilities.
“Anyone who is a parent knows that you have to be pretty healthy to take care of kids, and if you’re sick and not able to get better, it makes it a lot harder to effectively care for your children,” Searing says.
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