As more states look to expand Medicaid, they may find a particular benefit to increasing coverage for children, new research shows. The analysis comes with healthcare a key election issue and Democrats running to protect the ACA and stop Republican efforts to roll back its Medicaid expansion. Nebraska, Utah and Idaho could follow the lead of voters in Maine who last November voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act via ballot initiative. “In 2017, uninsured children were more likely than insured children to be teens, to be Hispanic, and to live in the South,” Urban Institute researchers said. “Hispanic children experienced strong coverage gains in expansion states that largely eliminated the gap in uninsurance between white and Hispanic children in those states by 2017.”

Source: Forbes September 09, 2018 12:56 UTC