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Medicaid covers one fifth of the US population – 72 million Americans; 31 million of those Americans are children (43%).

We’ve seen articles in many new sources that say the incoming GOP Congress intends to cut Medicaid.

Medicaid plays a larger role in providing health coverage to people living in small towns and rural communities than it does in metropolitan areas, a trend that is particularly striking among children, according to an extensive analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) and the University of North Carolina NC Rural Health Research Program.

A Georgetown University Report found that non-elderly adults and children in rural areas and small towns are more likely than those living in metro areas to rely on Medicaid for their health insurance. As a consequence, reductions in federal Medicaid funding being contemplated in Congress are more likely to cause greater harm to these communities than metro areas.

This Report corroborates a Video Series we did late in 2024 on how Project 2025 will change healthcare in the United States. And one of those videos was on how Project 2025 would negatively effect healthcare in rural areas.

With us to talk about this more with today is Joan Alker, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Children and Families (CCF), and a Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a nationally recognized expert on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and is the lead author of CCF’s annual report on children’s health care coverage trends.

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