Harold Pollack says the temporary federal high-risk pools won’t reach most of the medically uninsured:
The Affordable Care Act includes a number of measures that go into effect in the short term — some of them this year, such as a regulation prohibiting insurers from denying coverage of children’s pre-existing conditions. That provision, along with the expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, should help many families with sick or disabled children who would otherwise be uninsured.
