"It's important that policy makers and legislators fully understand how critical it is that everybody has equal access to health care," Preston said. "Medicaid and CHIP are safety net programs that service the most vulnerable, so it's imperative at the federal level that they pass required laws to ensure the necessary funding is in place. And it's a state-level imperative to cover as many people as possible, and that includes aggressive enrollment [in Obamacare] in what is a shortened enrollment period."