Columbia Journalism Review
By: Trudy Lieberman
Since the beginning of the year, many local news outlets have provided robust reporting on Medicaid, which has bolstered reader interest in the program. “In the course of the debate, it’s become clear that Medicaid has tremendous public support,” says Shannon Buckingham, vice president for communications at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “There has been much more focus [on Medicaid] in this debate than I’ve ever seen in any health policy debate.”
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Medicaid emerged slowly as a frame for coverage of efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, says Joan Alker, who directs Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. Then, says Alker, “it started to seep out” that Congress was considering “radical changes” to Medicaid’s financing structure, which had been in place for 50 years. As those changes took shape, coverage took off.
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