By Eric Galatas
October 29th, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas – More children in Texas and around the nation have health coverage. That’s the good news according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, but Texas leads the nation in the number of children without insurance. Nationwide, the report found the rate of uninsured children dropped to a historic low of six percent in 2014, the year the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect.
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Study co-author Joan Alker, executive director at Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families, says the study confirms that years of work by policymakers and other stakeholders to reform health care in the U.S. is beginning to pay off. “The Affordable Care Act, which is a significant domestic policy initiative, was really building on a decade of success for kids with Medicaid and CHIP,” she says. “But we did see a significant decline from 7.1 percent to six percent in the rate of uninsured kids.”
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