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US: Top Five Threats to Child Welfare from the Senate Health Care Repeal Proposal (Opinion)
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute – June 30, 2017
The Senate’s proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to sharply cut Medicaid payments to states through so-called per capita caps can sound very abstract to social workers and policymakers coping with the day-to-day tragedies and crises of child welfare. But these disastrous changes could take a major step toward becoming law after the July 4 recess when the Senate will return to its bill. The dangers of these changes are very real to abused and neglected children, their birth, adoptive, and foster parents, as well as state agencies and providers.
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2017/06/30/top-five-threats-to-child-welfare-from-the-senate-health-care-repeal-proposal/