Washington — Ten years of progress on children’s health care coverage is threatened by increasing unemployment, declining state revenues, and a growing affordability gap between family income and the cost of healthcare coverage, according to a report released today by the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute.
“When a parent loses a job, the family often loses its only access to affordable healthcare coverage for themselves and their children,” said Jocelyn Guyer, Deputy Executive Director of the research and policy center. “Behind the alarming unemployment numbers are a lot of uninsured families struggling to keep their kids safe and healthy.”
