By Dan Heyman
October 29th, 2015
RICHMOND, Va. – More children are getting health care coverage nationally, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. But Virginia is falling behind. Georgetown and the advocacy group Voices for Virginia’s Children say the rate of uninsured children in the state changed little from 2013 to 2014.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, says the children most likely to go without insurance are not from the very poorest families, but from the working poor. The Affordable Care Act was intended in part to reach that population. But Alker points out that even states that don’t want to have anything to do with Obamacare can bring many of their children into coverage with effective outreach for state programs.
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