Expanding the Child Health Safety Net
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At the Children's Defense Fund, we have been working to secure health coverage for all children for more than three decades. During that time, we and many others have been slowly filling in gaps in our health care system to help cover the uninsured. The landmark health reform legislation - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 - signed by President Obama in March guarantees access to health coverage for 32 million people in America, including more than 95% of all children.
It represents the largest single leap towards the finish line in decades towards expanding and strengthening the child health safety net and provides the greatest expansion of health coverage to the poor through Medicaid since that program's enactment in 1965. At least 16 million children, parents, and childless adults with incomes below 133 percent of poverty ($29,400 for a family of
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