The University of Georgetown CCF has shared a new relationship with state data on the state coverage for women of reproductive age and how the cuts could have an impact on their access to obstetric care in small cities and rural areas.
Medicaid plays a more important role in the provision of health to people living in small cities and rural communities than in metropolitan areas, a trend that is particularly striking in women of childcare age, according to an in -depth analysis of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF). The Congress plans to reduce the federal funding of Medicaid thanks to an accelerated budgetary process, which should further affect rural communities that metropolitan areas.
Speakers:
- Joan Alker, Georgetown University CCF Executive Director and Principal Author of the Report
- Ryan Cross, Vice-president of government affairs and advocacy among Franciscan missionaries of the Notre-Dame health system (FMOLHS), a non-profit Catholic health system at the service of patients in Louisiana and Mississippi
- Katy supports Kozhimannil, Codirector of the Rural Health Research Center and professor at the Policy and Health Management Division, University of Minnesota School of Public Health Health