REBROADCAST: Medicaid as Linchpin, Truth and Consequences

This special rebroadcast session with updates taped in early August poses the question “More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage?” as it pertains to various policy shifts related to the Medicaid program. Dr. Robert K. Ross will moderate a conversation exploring how Medicaid serves as a linchpin connecting children’s health to educational achievement and our broader health care system. With nearly half (49%) of U.S. children enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP as of October 2024, this program’s fate directly affects children’s ability to attend school regularly, focus in class, and achieve academic success. Like a thread woven deeply into our health care fabric, pulling on Medicaid threatens to unravel the stability of children’s hospitals, rural health care facilities, school-based health services, and countless other essential services for children, people with disabilities, older adults needing long-term care, and many working families.