Real Clear Health

By: Joan Alker

Based on the report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the United States has reached a historical rate of insured children: only 5% of children remain uninsured. This has been attributed to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program  (CHIP) under the Affordable Care Act.

Joan Alker, CCF’s executive director and author of this article, discusses furthermore the report and provides her opinion on said topic.

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For the past six years, my colleagues and I here at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families have reported on state-by-state and national trends in children’s health coverage. This year, we found that the nation’s uninsured rate among children fell by a third (from 7.1 percent to 4.8 percent) from 2013 to 2015 as health reform’s major coverage provisions took effect. That constitutes the largest two-year drop in the child uninsured rate on record, driven by continued enrollment growth in Medicaid and CHIP and further coverage gains achieved by health reform.

Joan Alker is the Executive Director of the Center for Children and Families (CCF) and a Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. Her work focuses on health coverage for low-income children and families, with an emphasis on Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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