Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sen. Bob Casey plans to propose the most sweeping expansions of children’s health care, education and school meal programs in recent memory, launching a messaging campaign in Harrisburg on Friday that he will take across Pennsylvania in 2020. Among the central tenets of the plan, which was provided to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is the automatic enrollment of children in Medicaid at birth, an effort to reach roughly 4 million children who are currently uninsured.
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“The uninsured rate is going in the wrong direction” in recent years, said Joan Alker, a research professor and executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
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