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		<title>One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Rural Maternity Crisis</title>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/21/one-big-beautiful-bill-one-big-rural-maternity-crisis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before H.R. 1 passed, rural America was already facing difficulties with access to maternal health care. From hospital closures, workforce shortages, low reimbursement rates, and policy changes, rural maternal healthcare systems have faced a deep crisis that threatens patient access to medical services. 109 rural hospitals have closed since 2005. Between 2024 and early 2026 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fact-Checking the White House Fraud Ledger: Trusted Numbers or Legerdemain?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Schneider]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The White House has posted a “Fraud Ledger,” which it describes as “a public record of the fraud, waste, and corruption identified by the Trump Administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud since January 2025.&#160; The Task Force, established by Executive Order in March, is chaired by Vice President Vance and includes representatives from 11 agencies [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Census Bureau Releases Some New Data on Child Uninsured Rate, but Questions Remain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week the U.S. Census Bureau released the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) data, which examine poverty, income, health insurance and other trends for calendar year 2025. Normally, the Census Bureau would also release the American Community Survey (ACS) this week, which provides considerably larger sample sizes and hence much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CCF Comments on HHS Vaccination Request for Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Request for Information: Categories Used in Federal Vaccine Recommendations and the Role of Shared Clinical Decision-Making. Read the Comments.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Webinar: Medicaid Connections: Substance Use Health &#038; Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Download the Audio Transcript The historical arc of access to substance use services may understandably make one prone to ignore Medicaid. Often, substance use responses were housed in punitive, not healing systems. However, 21st-century legislative and system changes have begun to shift that reality, albeit unequally. Health responses for people who use drugs have become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Policy Brief: Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements</title>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/14/new-policy-brief-rural-communities-at-greater-risk-of-harmful-impacts-from-new-medicaid-work-reporting-requirements/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the nation nears full implementation of the Medicaid work reporting requirements Congress enacted in 2025 in H.R. 1, Joan Alker and I took an in-depth look at how these new paperwork requirements to sign-up for and keep Medicaid health coverage will affect residents of rural areas and small towns. Our previous research has shown [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, legislation which requires work reporting requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility in the 41 states, including Washington, D.C., that have expanded coverage to most low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act. (These mandated reporting requirements also apply in at least two non-expansion states, Wisconsin and Georgia, that cover [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CCF Comments on CMS Proposed Provider Tax Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) regarding CMS’s proposed rule to amend the Indirect Hold Harmless Threshold of Health Care-Related Taxes. Read the Comments.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>States are Sending Initial Outreach Notices about Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements. What Do They Look Like?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Medicaid work reporting requirements just a few months away, states are scrambling to make complex changes to their eligibility and enrollment systems and processes. States must also do targeted outreach to communicate new work reporting requirements (WRRs) to affected Medicaid expansion adults and new applicants. Many states launched websites this summer informing enrollees about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Proposed Head Start Rule Would Further Undermine Child and Family Health </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Head Start, a federal program that supports young children in low-income families, is headlining news in the early childhood policy and health worlds. Early last month, the Trump Administration released a monumental proposal to alter the program’s framework. Head Start is an essential investment in children’s wellbeing that works alongside Medicaid in child care centers, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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