These fact sheets focus on how Medicaid helps meet the needs of children, families, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and low-income seniors.
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Medicaid is a Critical Support for the Early Childhood Education Workforce
In Partnership with Medicaid is an important source of health coverage for the early childhood education professionals who support child development and care for children while parents work, and for the children and families these educators serve. At least thirteen states cover more than a third of the child care workforce through Medicaid, making the…
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Medicaid Helps Families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
In partnership, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Family Voices, —a national nonprofit led by families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities—are sharing perspectives from families whose children have special health care needs and disabilities and are covered by Medicaid. In a survey conducted…
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How Medicaid Supports Parents in Crisis, Children in or Youth Aging out of Foster Care, Relative Caregivers, and Adoptive Families
Medicaid Matters for Children and Families in the Child Welfare System The child welfare system encompasses children who are in or at-risk of entering foster care, living with relative caregivers, or adopted out of care. Medicaid is a critical source of access to physical, mental, and dental health care for this population and their parents…
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Medicaid Helps Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
In Partnership with: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Depend on Medicaid Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) are defined as children who have chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children…
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How Medicaid Supports Seniors and People with Disabilities and Their Caregivers
In Partnership with Medicaid Supports the Health and Economic Well-Being of Paid and Unpaid Caregivers and is Vital to Older Adults and People with Disabilities Medicaid is essential to the health and wellbeing of people in the United States at every stage of life. Medicaid is much more than a health insurance program: it is…