As Congress Considers Major Cuts to Medicaid, New Report Sheds Light on Role Medicaid Fulfills for Small Towns and Rural Communities
Georgetown University CCF shared a new report, published county-level maps and explained how federal Medicaid cuts being considered by Congress would have an outsized impact on rural America during a webinar on January 15.
Medicaid plays a larger role in providing health coverage to people living in small towns and rural communities than it does in metropolitan areas, a trend that is particularly striking among children, according to an extensive analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF). The new Congress, however, is considering large, damaging cuts to federal Medicaid funding along with other harmful Medicaid policy changes. These cuts would cause even greater harm to rural communities than metro areas.
Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy CCF experts hosted a webinar to share the findings of the report and hear from special guests about how massive Medicaid cuts would impact rural residents and health care systems.
Who:
- Joan Alker, Georgetown University CCF Executive Director
- Aubrianna Osorio, Georgetown University CCF Research Manager
- Katy Backes Kozhimannil, Co-Director of the Rural Health Research Center and a Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- Benjamin Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System, Kansas
Moderator: Anne Dwyer, Georgetown CCF Associate Research Professor
