Medicaid expansion credited for getting a record number of kids … – Columbus Dispatch

More than 95 percent of Ohio children have health coverage as the uninsured rate fell to
historic lows in the wake of Obamacare.A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families credits Medicaid
expansion under the Affordable Care Act for the decline in uninsured children.
In Ohio, 26,000 children gained coverage between 2013 and 2015, the analysis showed, leaving an
estimated 115,000 younger than 19 without health insurance.
The state’s rate of uninsured children during that time fell to 4.4 percent, down from 5.3
percent, and just under the national average.
Advocates for children applauded Ohio leaders for the 2014 expansion of Medicaid, the tax-funded
health-care program for the poor and disabled. The move, they said, helped more kids gain coverage
since the 1997 creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a joint federal-state
program for children whose families have modest incomes that now are low enough to qualify for
Medicaid.
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