Number Of Uninsured Kids In Georgia Down Sharply Under ACA

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June 19th, 2018

Nationally, 2.2 million fewer children are uninsured from 2013 to 2016, reflecting a 38 percent decrease in the number of uninsured kids, said a report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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The state has seen a decrease of more than 85,000 in its number of uninsured children since the Affordable Care Act was implemented, a new report says.

Georgia had the fourth-highest such decrease among states from 2013 to 2016, said the report from the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center.

The decline in Georgia represents a 32 percent reduction in uninsured kids in the state. The percentage of uninsured children here fell from 10 percent to 6.7 percent in 2016.

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