The Delta Discovery

By: Trevor Storrs

Alaska is among the top states leading a national trend in improvements to health care coverage rates for American Indian/Alaska Native children, according to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.

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“At a time when Congress is considering extremely large cuts to Medicaid and a dangerous restructuring of the program, Alaska Native and American Indian families are especially at risk,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. “They face many barriers to success including higher rates of poverty and uninsurance and they depend on Medicaid significantly more than other families.”

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