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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that most health insurers and employer health plans cover certain preventive services without cost-sharing, including vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This requirement has been of enormous importance to families given the high cost of fully immunizing children against vaccine-preventable disease, but health insurance alone is not sufficient for the extraordinary demands on the public health system imposed by a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.
       

Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - June 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Rosenbaum, Sabrina Corlette, Alexander Somodevilla Source Type: blogs