Losing Ground: Current Medicaid Policy Threatens Children's Access to Health Care

From 2008 through 2016, the number of uninsured children in the United States decreased from 7.6 million to 3.6 million (Alker& Roygardner, 2019). However, since 2017 that trend has reversed. Over 4 million children are now uninsured —the highest rate of uninsured children since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—and over one-quarter of these children are aged under 6 years (Burak, Clark,& Roygardner, 2019). According to the periodicity schedule for preventive pediatric health care, children should have 30 well-child visits from birth through 21 years of age, with 15 of these visits occurring from the first weeks of life through 6 years of age (Hagan, Shaw,& Duncan, 2017).
Source: Journal of Pediatric Health Care - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Health Policy Source Type: research