The Imprint Weekly
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Medicaid’s Enormous Role in Child Welfare
A budget bill is moving through Congress that includes significant cuts to the Medicaid program, one the largest federal programs and the provider of health insurance for one in five people in America. And it has an outsized impact on the child welfare system, both in the prevention of families becoming involved with it and for children in foster care.
Zach Laris, founder of Bolder Horizon and author of the Child Welfare Wonk blog, joins us to review the nexus of Medicaid and child welfare, and what the impact of cuts to the system might mean for system-involved children and families.
Thanks to SpeakWrite for sponsoring this episode!
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https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/house-begins-markup-reconciliation-bill-today/261108
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