Romper
By: Josie Rhodes Cook
On Thursday, the House voted to break up aspects of the Affordable Care Act and replace the nation’s health care system with the American Health Care Act instead. Before the vote, several physician groups as well as patient-advocacy groups spoke out against the AHCA. Now, following it’s passing, the American Academy of Pediatrics has spoken out against the AHCA because it’s “bad policy for children and dangerous policy for our country.”
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The physicians and advocates made sure to include some important statistics in their statement, like the fact that the children’s health coverage rate in the United States is “at a historic high of 95 percent.” The Georgetown University Health Policy institute reported that from 2013-2015, children’s uninsured levels had the largest two-year decline on record — and that that decline aligned with the implementation of many of the provisions of the ACA.
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