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		<title>Young Children’s Uninsurance is On the Rise – What Can Be Done to Protect Child Health?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, we released an analysis of uninsurance trends that found that young children were becoming uninsured at a faster rate than their school-aged peers. The trend is alarming and predates the massive declines we are seeing in child Medicaid enrollment since President Trump took office and before H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts and policy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Administration Issues Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver Financing Guidance Which Goes Far Further Than H.R. 1 (Again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, June 11 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new guidance on the Secretary’s approach to implementing Section 1115(g) which was added to the Social Security Act by H.R. 1 – the President’s signature budget bill enacted last year. (Our explainer of the health provisions in the bill can be found [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protected: Maternal and Infant in Mississippi Lags Behind the Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Would Benjamin Franklin’s Volunteer Fire Brigade Satisfy DHHS’s Proposed Rule on Medicaid Work Reporting “Community Engagement” Requirements?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Americans, as French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1831, have a special propensity for coming together outside of government as volunteers for community improvement. From Benjamin Franklin’s organization of the nation’s first volunteer fire brigade to President George H. W. Bush’s 1989 call for Americans to volunteer as a “thousand points of light,” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS Ignores the Law (Again) – This Time Taking Health Insurance Away from Individuals with Substance Use Disorders, Mental Health Conditions, and Serious Health Conditions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cathy Hope]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago, we explained how the Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) proposed regulation on state directed payments goes far beyond the statutory authority in H.R. 1 to incredibly harmful effect. Now it has happened again. This time CMS has issued an interim final rule on work reporting requirements (the “IFR”) that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Administration Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid: HHS OIG Hammers Hawaii</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Schneider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 13, Vice President Vance, the chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, held a press conference.&#160; He announced the deferral of $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid matching payments owed to California, which received considerable attention. He also announced that the HHS Inspector General had by letter that day warned state [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Which States Are Seeing the Largest Declines in Child Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Georgetown CCF has been closely monitoring Medicaid/CHIP enrollment for many years &#8212; especially during periods of rapid change. Unfortunately, we are in another period where large declines in child Medicaid/CHIP enrollment are happening—more than 2 million fewer children have been enrolled since January 2025. Why is this bad news? Because children in working families don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Decade Later, CMS Updates the Medicaid EPSDT Playbook for States: Here’s What You Need to Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Dwyer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit is the heart of Medicaid’s coverage for children, and something we have been tracking for a long time. As highlighted in past blog posts, the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services’ (CMS) released a landmark state health official letter in 2024 followed up by issuance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inside the 2026 Maternal Mental Health State Report Cards: No More Overall ‘F’s, But a Brand New Failing Grade for U.S. Parental Support</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, in collaboration with the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, released the much-anticipated 2026 Maternal Mental Health State Report Cards. One in five mothers experience maternal mental health conditions in the United States. The financial toll of untreated disorders is estimated to cost [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Federal Medicaid Work Reporting Rule Threatens Coverage for Vulnerable Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Statement by Joan Alker, Executive Director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy: “This rule gives states a raw deal, but more importantly, puts health care at risk for people with illnesses and chronic conditions like cancer or a substance use disorder. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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