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Adam Searing

is an Associate Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

Adam Searing is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families where he focuses on Medicaid and other health coverage programs.

Before joining CCF, Mr. Searing served seventeen years as Director of the Health Access Coalition for the North Carolina Justice Center. The Health Access Coalition is North Carolina’s leading voice for health reforms that address the needs of the uninsured and underinsured. During his tenure, Searing fought to keep health plans and hospitals nonprofit and community-focused, won and helped implement expansions of the state Medicaid program, helped pass a model state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program and worked on passage and implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act. In addition, Mr. Searing taught public policy courses as adjunct faculty at both the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy.

In 2012 he was named a Health Advocate of the Year by the national consumer group Families USA. Also in 2012 he was recognized as a “Champion of Change” in health care by the White House. He is a recipient of both the NC Pediatric Society’s Tom Vitaglione Child Health Advocacy Award and the NC Primary Health Care Association’s Evelyn D. Schmidt Award for Outstanding Service. Searing is a licensed attorney with degrees in both law and public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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South Dakota Voters Pass Medicaid Expansion. What Happens Next?

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Bipartisan Medicaid Expansion Efforts in North Carolina: How Politicians Formerly Opposed to Expansion Are Framing Their New Support

In a reversal of the longtime opposition of many members of their caucus, House and Senate Republicans in North Carolina have joined Democratic colleagues and shown overwhelming support for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina’s 2022 legislative session. Both chambers have passed their own Medicaid expansion bills with nearly unanimous support from both parties, although they […]

Report Finds Medicaid Expansion Has Made Huge Impact in Montana, Especially in Rural Areas

The Montana Healthcare Foundation hired consulting firm Manatt Health to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of the Montana legislature’s expansion of the Medicaid program.  This follows up the foundation’s 2021 report on Montana’s Medicaid program and Medicaid expansion. Combined, these reports lay out the background of Medicaid in Montana and the program’s reach, […]

Medicaid Expansion Discussion in Selected States Twelve Years After ACA Passage

This week marks the twelve-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but residents of twelve states still have not been able to access the Medicaid expansion benefit enacted as part of that law as their state leaders have blocked it from taking effect.  Over two million Americans are still unable to get quality, affordable […]