The Huffington Post

By: Jeffrey Young

Seema Verma is the chosen administrator for CMS, and so, she will have to make many decisions that could end up leaving poor people having to pay more for their healthcare coverage plans. As Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, mentioned, this would only create more barriers to providing healthcare coverage to those in need.

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“It speaks to a different vision of what health coverage should look like, and from my perspective, it’s a very troubling vision because it’s erecting more barriers to coverage and potentially very punitive barriers for people who need it the most,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

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