Pacific Standard

By: Francie Diep

Thanks to Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, now 3.5 million children are uninsured – opposed to 2008, when 6.9 million children were uninsured. Joan Alker, executive director of CCF, mentioned that programs such as Medicaid and CHIP have helped many kids to this day to be covered by health insurance.

…

The provisions of Obamacare were mostly designed to help low-income adults—not kids—get health insurance. Children were already covered by Medicaid and by the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which was established in 1997. But the Affordable Care Act may still have helped cover some kids, one of the analysis’ authors, public-policy researcher Joan Alker of Georgetown University wrote last year. Some children may have benefited from a marketplace plan. Others might have gotten insurance because the act lowered the premiums low-income parents in some states had to pay to cover their older kids.

…

Read more here