Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Childhood obesity in the United States is a growing concern for policymakers, teachers, public health officials, and parents. Over the past decade, approximately 17 percent of children and adolescents in the US—or 12.7 million individuals—were categorized as obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is about triple the rate in 1980. […]
One of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to expand the availability of health insurance coverage and decrease the number of uninsured individuals. But a number of people will still remain uninsured, falling into the “coverage gaps” created by the Supreme Court decision that made the expansion of state Medicaid programs optional.