Public News Service
By: Eric Galatas
A health policy analyst for Voices for Utah Children, Jessie Mandle, mentioned that repealing the Affordable Care Act would be very bad for healthcare system in Utah. As Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, mentioned it would double the number of insured children.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, notes due to the ACA, 95 percent of children in the U.S. have health insurance. “But now, Congress is poised to take a U-turn and taking away affordable coverage options, which would actually double the number of uninsured kids,” she states.
“Health insurance is the foundation, I think, for families and kids to have healthy outcomes,” she stresses. “When we’re talking about what’s at stake is that kids could lose coverage, and that our governments won’t have the safety net to provide for families.”
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