Medicaid Archives

10.09.2024 Joan Alker headshot

Joan Alker

Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, discusses her work and the role of Medicaid in the 2024 election.

Fellow Abby Varker

10.08.2024 glasses in front of a stack of papers with a red and blue gradient filter. health coverage concept

Public Health on the Ballot: Health Coverage

A look at where the presidential candidates stand on issues surrounding health care coverage, past and present.

Fellow Abby Varker

08.28.2024 Young woman doing blood sugar test at home

Cost vs Care: Florida's Insulin Crisis

Rising insulin costs are forcing people to make difficult decisions about their care, especially in states that did not expand Medicaid.

Guest Authors Natalie Axelrod, Michael Gemmell, Jessica Shapiro Gemmell, Amanda Green, Lindsey Morrow, Olivia Perdigon

06.18.2024 Rural hospital facility with a 'Closed' sign out front

Health Equity

The Toll of Rural Hospital Closures

From economic decline and unemployment to worsening health outcomes, rural hospital closures harm the health of the surrounding community.

Fellow Dani Weissert

05.14.2024

The Weight of Women’s Health Insurance

Insurance status is deeply connected to birth weight, with uninsured pregnant women more likely to have a low-birth-weight birth.

Fellow Heather Sherr

05.01.2024

Health Insurance and Infant Mortality in the U.S.

Privately insured infants had better health outcomes and a lower risk of death in their first year of life than infants insured by Medicaid.

Guest Authors Colm Travers, Desalyn Johnson

02.20.2024 close up of prison cell bars

Stripped of Medicaid: Ex-Inmates' Struggle for Coverage

Entering the carceral system leaves many without insurance coverage, even after release.

Fellow Caroline Dignard

01.22.2024 Average uninsurance rates among nonelderly adults in Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states, by redline category and race and ethnicity, 2009–13 and 2015–19

Average uninsurance rates among nonelderly adults in Medicaid expansion and nonexpansion states, by redline category and race and ethnicity, 2009–13 and 2015–19

Expanding Equity

Medicaid expansion had the largest impact on lowering uninsurance rates in states with the greatest amount of historical redlining practices.

Fellow Sean Hagan

12.06.2023 image of planned parenthood, an organization that offers reproductive health care in all forms

Sexual & Reproductive Health

Without Planned Parenthood, Texas Medicaid Patients Lose Access to Reproductive Care

In 2021, Planned Parenthood was terminated from Texas' Medicaid Network, limiting the most marginalized patients' access to reproductive care.

Guest Author Anna Chatillon

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