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Study: Children’s Uninsurance Rate Could Double If GOP Undermines Funding | A new study published today in Health Affairs finds that “health reform 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.” But if Republicans are successful in repealing the maintenance of effort provision that requires states to maintain the eligibility standards in Medicaid or undermining funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), “uninsurance rate of children could more than double, increasing from 4.2 million to 7.9-9.1 million children,” the study found.