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How Obamacare Affects Children



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Shopping for health insurance

Under Obamacare, individuals and families that lack government or employer-based health plans — including self-employed people and those working for companies with fewer than 50 employees — will be eligible to shop for coverage in marketplaces called Health Insurance Exchanges. This collection of online insurance shopping malls is scheduled to open Oct. 1. It will feature websites established by the federal and state governments. U.S. News will offer a guide to the state exchanges, along with individual health plan data at U.S. News Best Health Insurance Plans. Families also can go directly to a broker or health insurance company. An estimated "11.5 million parents are uninsured," tweeted the Center on Children and Families during the chat. "Many will have coverage for the first time in January," when the insurance kicks in.

Children don't have to wait. Most are already eligible for coverage today. Stephen Zuckerman, senior fellow for the Urban Institute wrote that this coverage comes through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Joan Alker, president of the Center for Children and Families, called Medicaid and CHIP, free or low-cost health coverage run by the federal and state governments, the "MVPs" of health insurance for children. "It brought uninsured rate for kids to record lows ... in 2011," she tweeted.

How many kids are uninsured?

The rates of uninsured children are at a record low. Still, one in 10 — or 7.6 million — children in the United States is uninsured, according to the Children's Defense Fund, a child advocacy nonprofit. Parents often aren't aware that children are eligible to sign up for benefits through public plans, says Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, a bipartisan advocacy organization for children and families. "Many kids will get insurance just because of news about the Affordable Care Act," he wrote. Zuckerman tweeted, "research shows that when parents get covered, children benefit too."

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-insurance/articles/2013/08/27/how-obamacare-affects-children