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According to the new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the rates of insured children nationwide reached a historical high of 95%. South Carolina contributed to this historical rate, as between 2013 and 2015, it increased its insured children rate to 96%, by reducing the children uninsured rate by 39%.

Sue Berkowitz, the director of the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, attributes their progress to CHIP. Similarly, Joan Alker, the executive director of CCF and co-author of the report, attributes the nationwide success to Medicaid expansion and CHIP under the Affordable Care Act.

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South Carolina is making major strides in its work to ensure more children have access to health care coverage, according to a report released today by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.

Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, notes the drop in the number of uninsured children was widespread across income, racial and geographic lines.

She attributes that to major provisions of the Affordable Care Act complementing other important programs and policies.

“We see success around the country and I think this speaks to how despite all of the fighting and very intense partisanship around the Affordable Care Act we can feel good as a country that we’ve come together through Medicaid, CHIP and the Affordable Care Act and really reduced the number of uninsured children,” she explains.

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