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By: Eric Tegethoff
According to the new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the rates of insured children nationwide reached a historical high of 95%. Unfortunately, Washington state only reduced their uninsured children by 2.6%, expanding coverage to just 52,000 children between 2013 and 2015.
The director of Children’s Alliance, Adam Holdorf, mentioned that the importance of health coverage, and its present and future effects on the children. He accredited their progress to the Washington’s Cover All Kids Law passed on 2007.
However, they still have work to do, as they’re ranked at the 7th lowest state providing insurance to children.
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The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found that, between 2013 and 2015, the number of insured children in the Evergreen State increased by 52,000. That cut the rate of uninsured children to 2.6 percent, the seventh-lowest in the nation.
Across the country, 41 states saw an increase in coverage rates for children during the study period, when major provisions of the Affordable Care Act went into effect. Joan Alker, executive director at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and co-author of the report, said the country has seen an unprecedented reduction in the rate of uninsured children.
“Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance program and the Affordable Care Act have all been working well together and have succeeded in raising the number of children with health insurance coverage to 95 percent,” Alker said. “This is the highest level in pretty much all of recent recorded data.”
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