July 28, 2015
By Dan Heyman,
RICHMOND– Advocates and academics alike are praising Medicaid as it turns 50 this week. In Virginia, two out of eery seven children receive healthcare through the program, which is designed primarily for poor families and the disabled.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, is part of a coalition that researched how kids helped by Medicaid do later in life. She says it makes a profound difference in several ways.
“What’s so interesting about this new research is it’s showing that when these kids grow up, there are so many ways in which Medicaid has benefited them,” says Alker. “Their health is better, their educational success is better and their economic outcomes are improved.”
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