Health Affairs December issue discusses the ACA and children

When the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is fully implemented, it will extend
health insurance coverage to many adult Americans who currently lack it.
It is not known, however, how the health reform
legislation will affect children and parents who would otherwise be
uninsured. A new study analyzes this topic and finds that the Affordable
Care Act has the potential to cut the number of uninsured children by
about 40 percent, from 7.4 million to 4.2 million, and the number of
uninsured parents by almost 50 percent, from 12.7 million to 6.6 million.
However, the actual impact will depend on increasing the share of children
and parents who are enrolled in public coverage and on other
implementation outcomes. Most strikingly, if the requirement that states
continue their Medicaid and Children¹s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
coverage is rescinded and if Congress does not continue funding CHIP, the
uninsurance rate of children could more than double, increasing from 4.2
million to 7.9­ 9.1 million children. In that case, the uninsurance rate
among children would be higher than if the Affordable Care Act had not
been adopted. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/12/2371.abstract

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