Media Coverage

Joan Alker Discusses Children’s Health Insurance

The number of uninsured children in the U.S. has risen significantly in the past few years. In this episode for the Catholic Health USA podcast, Joan Alker from Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Dr. Heidi Sallee from SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital discuss the reasons for this trend, the policy implications, […]

Maggie Clark Talks Maternal Health with Marketplace

Listen as Maggie Clark discusses the importance of postpartum Medicaid coverage with Sabri Ben-Achour of Marketplace. Maggie Clark with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families said that “when women lose this coverage after 60 days, about half of them become uninsured. So that’s a million new mothers every year who are losing coverage every […]

Press Release – New Data Finds Number of Uninsured Children Increasing at Alarming Rate

Tennessee Justice Center By: Kinika Young An estimated 80,000 Tennessee children were uninsured last year, a number that has increased about 38% since 2016, according to a new report released by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Tennessee’s experience is part of a national trend that left an estimated 726,000 more children without health coverage […]