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By Maanasa Kona, Jalisa Clark, Megan Houston, and Emma Walsh-Alker with the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms Primary care is a critical tool to prevent illness and death and to improve the equitable distribution of health care in populations. However, access to this important source of care is lacking, especially for many underserved […]
Many parents are anxiously awaiting approval of the COVID vaccine for children under age 5. Once approved, the vaccines will close the final gap in vaccine access so that Americans of all ages can get immunized. As we wait for final approvals, the Biden Administration has been at work shoring up a range of partners […]
As we’ve previously written about here on Say Ahhh!, the American Rescue Plan included a number of provisions providing new opportunities for state Medicaid programs including temporary funding to enhance, expand, and strengthen home and community-based services for individuals covered by Medicaid. Under a CMS announcement made last week, states now have an extra year […]
Since we debuted the Dashboard Library, we’ve been keeping our eyes on state Medicaid agency websites and are pleased to announce that we’ve discovered quite a few more. The dashboards we’ve added to the list vary widely in content and presentation style, ranging from slides to interactive workbooks. Unfortunately, none of the dashboards that we […]
On June 2, 2022, CCF submitted public comments to the Internal Revenue Service related to a proposed rule which would finally fix the “family glitch.” As my colleague Tricia Brooks recently explained, the family glitch makes many children and other dependents in families offered unaffordable employer-based family coverage ineligible for premium tax credits to purchase […]
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the Internal Revenue Service on the proposed Affordability of Employer Coverage for Family Members of Employees rule. Georgetown CCF Comments to Family Glitch Rule 6-2-22
