National health-care reform is boon for Ohio children

YOUNGSTOWN — More Ohio children will get health care now and in the future because of national health-care reforms enacted earlier this year, says Tricia Brooks of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families.

Brooks presented an overview Wednesday of health-care reform, technically the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, during a community forum on National Health Care Reform at the Youngstown Club sponsored by Voices for Ohio’s Children, a children’s advocacy group.

More moderate-income families will get financial help to purchase private health-care insurance meaning more children will be covered too, at the same time strengthening the insurance industry, Brooks said during an interview before the community forum.

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