Media Coverage

Deseret News By: Jennifer Graham The new bill proposed by House Republicans, the American Health Care Act, is intended to replace the Affordable Care Act by mainly changing the funding of health coverage for the low-income population. … Medicaid, which covers one in five Americans, is administered by the states, with funding from the federal…

Arkansas Public Media By: Ann Kenda House Republicans released their proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is instead celebrating that they decreased by 25% the number of uninsured children. Elisabeth Burak, from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, mentioned that the plan proposed by the…

The Arizona Republic By: Ken Alltucker Arizona’s Medicaid expansion will be removed as of 2020 because of the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This bill will also reduce the subsidies that aided lower-income Americans to gain health coverage, therefore, there will be a decrease in Americans with health insurance overall. ……

WMOT By: Sarah Fentem The bill released by House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act will stop any incoming Americans from enrolling as of 2020. Joan Alker, CCF’s executive director, mentioned that if a terrible health crisis were to happen, the populations that will no longer have access to health care services will have…

Miami Herald By: Daniel Chang and Tony Pugh The American Health Care Act bill proposed by the House Republicans to replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act will severely affect Florida, because 4.3 million of Florida’s residents depend on Medicaid – and the bill intends to take those benefits away. This is so because the bill…

FiveThirtyEight By: Anna Maria Barry-Jester House Republicans released their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but they will not be able to remove the whole law, since they would need support from Democrats. However, the changes proposed will definitively diminish the number of Americans that are received health care insurance as of now, thanks to…

The New York Times By: Haeyoun Park By replacing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will try to change the financing provided by the federal government to Medicaid, which is currently providing health coverage to 74 million Americans. Although these changes will occur after 2020, with this decision of decreasing the financing methods to cover Medicaid,…

The Olympian By: Andrew Demillo With Republicans repealing the Affordable Care Act, Arkansas would be removing approximately 60,000 people from its hybrid Medicaid expansion. This will definitively put Arkansas at risk, and Joan Alker and Marquita Little, from CCF and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, respectively, are very concerned about the future for this…

Governing By: Mattie Quinn President Trump has made it very clear that he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by allowing states to have more power and flexibility to decide how they want to go about Medicaid and their healthcare plans in their state in particular. However, this will have many implications – especially…

Arkansas Online Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families partnered with The Clinton School of Public Service to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARKids First, in an event that will discuss the history and benefits from children’s health program, with the help of health experts, including CCF’s. … There will be a discussion about the history…

Education Dive By: Tara García Mathewson The new administration will repeal the Affordable Care Act. This action, however, will affect different operations and schools, and may retrocede the progress that had been made between 2013 and 2015 in providing healthcare coverage to 95.2% of children nationwide. … The portion of children without health insurance dropped…

Education Week By: Alyson Klein Once the Affordable Care Act is revamped, there will probably be serious implications regarding the student mental-health services and even hiring substitute teachers. Even though the President vowed to make sure his new plan gets healthcare coverage to everyone, that goal seems impossible without the implementation of the ACA. ……

Real Clear Health By: Joan Alker Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families’ executive director, Joan Alker, talks about the new report that CCF is working on – covering the research on how Medicaid coverage has been leading and will continue leading to healthier and longer lives, further educational attainment, and more beneficial futures overall.…

FiveThirtyEight By: Anna Maria Barry-Jester The plan to repeal the ACA has been outlined, basically saying that more people will become insured at a much lower price for all. However, that plan is not clear on how exactly this will be possible. ACA, and its programs like Medicaid, have helped many underprivileged people, and as…

POLITICO Pulse Check During POLITICO’s podcast, Seema Verma’s role as the CMS health policy consultant is discussed. Then, Tom Scully and Joan Alker are interviewed, and present their opinions on the said topic. … WHAT IT’S LIKE TO RUN CMS, AND WHAT VERMA MAY DO – On POLITICO’s “Pulse Check” podcast, former CMS administrator Tom Scully walks…

McClatchy DC Bureau By: Tony Pugh Having Seema Verma as the head of the CMS program may affect the poor people’s health insurance coverage, as the prices are likely to go up. This is likely to occur since Seema Verma was involved in the HIP 2.0 program for Indiana’s Medicaid beneficiaries. … The ideologically driven…

The Huffington Post By: Jeffrey Young Seema Verma is the chosen administrator for CMS, and so, she will have to make many decisions that could end up leaving poor people having to pay more for their healthcare coverage plans. As Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, mentioned, this would…

CQ Roll Call By: Joe Williams and Erin Mershon House Speaker, Paul Ryan, has supported the program to repeal the ACA, but senators are warning that the proposed plans will not pass in the upper decision-making chamber. Basically, the House is supporting the repeal of ACA, but the Senate is trying to avoid it, because…

CNBC By: Bertha Coombs Robin Henderson would be left with nothing if it wasn’t for Medicaid’s coverage, via Health Indiana Plan (HIP 2.0). This program was designed by Seema Verma and Mike Pence, and now that President Trump has assigned Seema Verma as head of the CMS, she will be very involved with Medicaid decisions…

  Washington Examiner By: Paige Winfield Cunningham Even though Rep. Tom Price, the lead of the Department of Health and Human Services, agreed to block Medicaid grants, the Republicans will need to change Medicaid to a per-capita system that much more other Republicans support and embrace. … Medicaid advocates push back against block grants and…