Press Releases

Proposed Medicaid Premiums Threaten Children’s Health Coverage in Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — The monthly premiums that the State of Florida hopes to impose on all Medicaid beneficiaries could result in 800,000 Florida children and parents leaving the program and risking their access to health coverage because they cannot afford to pay the fees, according to new research by the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown […]

Affordable Care Act Has the Potential to Cut Uninsured Rate for Children by Another 40% in 2014

An estimated 3.2 million children could gain health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, according to a joint report by the Urban Institute and Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families appearing today in the journal “Health Affairs”. Funded through The Atlantic Philanthropies’ KidsWell initiative, the new analysis provides the first in depth estimates […]

50 State Analysis Shows Progress in Most States; Despite Gains, Hispanic and Native American children remain disproportionately uninsured

Washington, D.C. – The vast majority of states managed to reduce the number of children going without health insurance during these tough economic times, according to a new report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families. The number of children in poverty has increased significantly, yet the number of uninsured children […]

Statement by Joan Alker, Co-Director of Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families on the release of Current Population Survey Data

(Washington, D.C.) – Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families Co-Director Joan Alker issued the following statement in response to the release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (2010) report: “The census data released today provided a very disturbing snapshot of the economic […]

New Guidance from CMS Accelerates Successful State Strategies in Streamlining and Coordinating Coverage for Children and Families Through Medicaid and the Exchange

Statement by Tricia Brooks, Assistant Research Professor, Georgetown Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families on August 12, 2011: “The Administration today released a set of Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including new regulations for streamlining eligibility and coordinating enrollment in Medicaid and the Exchange. […]

National Groups Urge the Obama Administration to Reject Utah Request to Cut Health Coverage for Children While Dramatically Increasing Costs to Families

Today, a group of 18 national children’s advocacy, provider, and health advocacy groups joined together to voice their deep concern to the Obama administration about Utah’s recent request to cut children’s health care and to dramatically increase the cost of care for their families. The group urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to […]