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Event Recording

The nation’s largest means tested public entitlement, Medicaid today is indispensable to health care and public health. From a modest companion to Medicare, Medicaid has grown into an insurer of approximately 1 in 5 Americans, the foundation on which rests the nation’s maternal and child health system, its system of mental health and substance use treatment, and its system of long-term services and supports. Medicaid makes Medicare work for tens of millions of low-income beneficiaries and is the platform on which a viable private insurance system depends to finance care for the most serious health risks. The entire system of safety net hospitals and clinics literally would not exist without Medicaid.

We stand at a point of competing legislative visions for Medicaid’s future. One would preserve and strengthen Medicaid; the other would dismantle it without attention to the health system fallout for doing so.

This session will examine Medicaid’s role in society and why its future matters to all Americans.

About the Speaker:

Sara Rosenbaum J.D. has devoted her career to health justice for medically underserved populations. She is Emerita Professor of Health Law and Policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Previously she served as the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy. Between 1993 and 1994 she served as a member of the White House Domestic Policy Council. During the first part of her career, Professor Rosenbaum worked at the Children’s Defense Fund, the National Health Law Program, and Vermont Legal Aid.

View Sara Rosenbaum J.D.'s PowerPoint presentation: The Future of Medicaid