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Kyrstin Racine

Kyrstin Racine is a State Health Policy Analyst with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Prior to this role, Kyrstin was the Executive Policy Assistant at the Center for Children and Families for three years, and interned at health policy-focused nonprofits beforehand. Kyrstin graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2015 and is currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

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In Medicaid Expansion States, Fewer Young Children Go Uninsured

Thanks to developments since the start of the new year, this post can start with some good news for young children: three more states have made progress toward expanding Medicaid. Last week, Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Sen. Jim Denning announced plans to move forward to with Medicaid expansion when the legislative session […]

Fact Checking CMS Administrator’s Claim on Outreach and Enrollment Efforts for Kids

In a recent interview on the PBS News Hour, Kaiser Health News reporter Sarah Varney asked CMS Administrator Seema Verma about steps the administration is taking to address the troubling increase in the number of uninsured children and its connection to the decrease in child enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP. Readers of SayAhhh! are already […]

Responding to Trump Administration’s Troubling Medicaid Financing and Supplemental Payment Rule

On November 18, 2019, the Trump Administration issued a proposed Medicaid “Fiscal Accountability” rule that seriously threatens to upend state budgets and reduce beneficiaries’ access to needed care.  The proposed rule, if finalized, could thus harm Medicaid beneficiaries, including children and families, as well as their health care providers, in most states. As Cindy Mann […]

The New Year Brings Good News to Uninsured Idahoans; Providers are Ready to Go

With all of the challenges facing the health care world these days, I decided to write my first blog of 2020 about some good news happening in Idaho. As of January 1st, over 50,000 Idahoans were enrolled in Medicaid expansion coverage finally bringing to fruition the ballot initiative passed handily by voters in November 2018. […]