Sabotaging the ACA

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The number of uninsured children in America is on the rise. An estimated 3.9 million children were uninsured in 2017, according to new research from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, up from 3.6 million in 2016. Every state saw an increase in their share of uninsured children; Washington, D.C. did not. Two charts tell the story: For the last decade, more and more American children were getting insurance coverage. Then in 2017, that trend suddenly reversed... 

The most likely culprits, per the report: 

• The Republican pursuit of Obamacare repeal and their success in repealing the individual mandate.
  
• The Trump administration’s regulations that undermine the health care law.
  
• Congress allowed an unprecedented lapse in funding authorization for the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
  
• President Trump’s immigration crackdown: Nearly 1 in 4 children in the US have a parent who is an immigrant, and we have strong evidence that an unwelcoming environment for that population leads them to pull out of public programs similar to CHIP and Medicaid..
  

Declines in child coverage rates occurred in 2017 despite an improving economy and low unemployment rate, strongly suggesting that federal actions contributed to a perception that publicly funded health coverage options are no longer available or, in the case of an immigrant parent, created concern about enrolling their child in public coverage for fear of reprisal. 

Uninsured rate for children is growing under Donald Trump - Vox
Sabotage is working and making real victims. Defenseless children..