Medical Support in Today’s Child Support Guidelines and The Affordable Care Act

First and foremost, this article does not —and cannot— provide a clear direction for medical child support under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (only Congress and rule makers can). What this article does is describe how states currently address medical support in their child support guidelines and how these provisions compare to ACA provisions. In short, this article documents “what is” with the hope that policymakers use it to find the appropriate path for medical child support in the future.