Public News Service
By: Suzanne Potter
Nevada has now hit a historic high – for the percentage of children who have health insurance, according to a new report.
Researchers from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found that about 4,000 additional kids got insurance between 2015 and 2016, an 8-percent improvement. And since 2013, 53,000 kids have become insured, but that still leaves 46,000 without insurance.
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Joan Alker, author of the report and executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, says a repeal of the ACA and massive cuts to Medicaid would not lower premiums or the costs borne by the state.
“Medicaid is not the driver of health care costs,” she says. “It’s things like prescription drugs going up. So I’m sure that governors would like new tools that would allow them to control costs but they’re not getting any of those new tools, so they are left holding the bag.”
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