Media Coverage

UniObregón The number of uninsured hispanic children has diminished from 11.5% to 7.5% between 2013 and 2015, according to the report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. Joan Alker, the executive director at CCF, mentioned that this is one the most significant accomplishments in the last two decades: giving children health insurance, and…

UT Dallas News Center A senior at UT Dallas, Diana Rodríguez, is about to graduate and plans to work with Latino immigrant children – as she can relate to them. She was helped by the UT Dallas’ Academic Bridge Program, and worked at the Center for Children and Families, where she began providing agency referrals…

Hispanic Outlook The recently published report on Latino children by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families showed that the number of insured Latino children has increased sharply by 4% between 2013 and 2015. On that same page, Latino children coverage reached an all-time high of 92.5% between 2013 and 2015. But there’s still much…

Manhattan Times News By: Andrea Sears According to a new report from Urban Institute, more than 1 million of New Yorkers would no longer have healthcare coverage. The Vice President for Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York, Elizabeth Benjamin, mentioned that doing this would also affect children greatly, after the uninsured…

WSJM According to the report by Urban Institute, repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave 887,000 people in Michigan without healthcare coverage. Georgetown University Center for Children and Families’ executive director, Joan Alker, mentioned that the majority of those losing healthcare coverage would be in working families, which most of them are non-Hispanic whites. ……

Public News Service By: Eric Galatas A health policy analyst for Voices for Utah Children, Jessie Mandle, mentioned that repealing the Affordable Care Act would be very bad for healthcare system in Utah. As Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, mentioned it would double the number of insured children.…

Public News Service By: Mark Richardson The report by Urban Institute showed that approximately 2.6 million Texans would be left without healthcare coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. The director of the Children’s Defense Fund-Texas, Patrick Bresette, mentioned that this repeal would also affect greatly the healthcare market and the U.S. economy. For…

Public News Service By: Mary Kuhlman According to the research by Urban Institute, repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave 960,000 Ohioans without health insurance. The CEO of Voices for Ohio’s Children, Brandi Slaughter, mentioned that even the partial repeal would affect the state’s federal funding – as the report showed that Ohio would be…

Public News Service By: Suzanne Potter Repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave 371,000 Nevadans without healthcare coverage by 2019. In addition, according to the report by Urban Institute, approximately 59 million Americans would be left without health coverage by 2019. The executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Alliance in Nevada added that, on top…

Public News Service By: Mary Kuhlman The Urban Institute research proved that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave more than 230,000 Iowans without healthcare coverage. The health policy associate for the Children and Family Policy Center in Iowa, Mary Nelle Trefz, mentioned that repealing the ACA could also make Iowa lose $7 billion in…

Public News Service By: Eric Galatas Erin Miller, the vice president of Colorado Children’s Campaign, mentioned that by repealing the Affordable Care Act, not only would 600,000 persons be left without healthcare coverage, but also the health care system and budget will be a disaster – dropping from $109 billion to $1.3 trillion in the…

Public News Service By: Mary Kuhlman The attempts of the new administration to remove the Affordable Care Act could reverse all the progress that Arkansas had made in healthcare coverage, according to a new report. The health policy director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Marquita Little, mentioned that ACA – apart from expanding…

Lancaster Online By: Heather Stauffer According to several studies, it has been proven that many families rely on Medicaid and CHIP for health insurance. Therefore, many families are concerned with the changes that will come under President-elect Trump and his administration. … However, a recent report issued by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families…

Med Device Online By: Suzanne Hodsden With Tom Price nominated as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Seema Verma as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, some healthcare experts are concerned with the future policy changes that could be made under their administration. … Susan Jo…

Surghar Daily Tom Price has been nominated by President-electr Trump to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Seema Verma, to be the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Given their background, policy analysts, such as Joan Alker and Emily Beauregard, have expressed their concerns in regards…

The New York Times By: Margot Sanger-Katz Seema Verma has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be in charge of Medicaid and Medicare programs. She has had experience with Medicaid in Indiana, where she developed the program HIP, that required Medicaid beneficiaries to pay monthly premiums. For this reason, many healthcare experts are concerned…

Healthcare Finance News Seema Verma was picked by President-elect Trump to administer CMS, given her experience with Medicaid during the past years in Indiana with Governor and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. However, many healthcare experts, such as Joan Alker and Susan Jo Thomas, are very concerned as to what changes Verma will be making nationally…

WLRN By: Scott Horsley With President-elect Donald Trump choices for healthcare administration in the government, healthcare experts, such as Joan Alker and Susan Jo Thomas, have become very concerned with the upcoming changes that programs like Medicaid will undergo nationally under this new administration. … JOAN ALKER: She’s certainly been a thought leader in the last…

Vox By: Sarah Kiff President-elect Trump has chosen health representatives that will possibly turn Medicaid into a program that will be controlled by the states individually – leaving federal government out of it. Therefore, cutting down the spending money used to pay for beneficiary’s cost. As Joan Alker mentioned, in order to do this, states…

NPR By: Jake Harper President-elect Trump picked Seema Verma as the next Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator to be in charge of the different programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program. Given her experience with Medicaid in Indiana with Gov. Mike Pence, many healthcare experts, like Joan Alker, hope that…