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Maggie Clark

Maggie Clark is a Senior State Health Policy Analyst at the Center for Children and Families (CCF). Before joining Georgetown University, she was an award-winning health journalist in Florida covering all aspects of Florida's health delivery system, with special attention to Medicaid for children. She also held various research positions at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. Maggie earned a BA in International Affairs from Florida State University and a Master of Journalism from the University of Maryland.

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Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist

Introduction The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis and has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world.8 In 2019, more than 750 women died of maternal causes in the United States while pregnant or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy, data from the Centers for Disease […]

Federal and State Policymakers Must Address Alarmingly High Maternal Mortality Rates and Racial Disparities

The United States has an unacceptably high maternal mortality rate and it is getting worse. The latest data from the CDC shows that maternal mortality increased significantly between 2018 and 2019, topping out at the highest recorded rate since the agency began tracking the rate more than 30 years ago. A country’s maternal mortality rate […]

Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist (Online Chartbook)

Introduction The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis. The nation has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world. More than 750 women died of maternal causes in the United States while pregnant or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy in 2019. The same year, Black women […]

Where States Stand on Extended Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

Since the American Rescue Plan passed in March, we’ve been closely following state decisions to take up the important new Medicaid state plan option that allows states to extend postpartum Medicaid and CHIP coverage for 12 months after the end of the pregnancy, well beyond the current federal cutoff of just 60 days postpartum. Because […]

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