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Disruptions in Medicaid coverage, and losing coverage altogether despite remaining eligible, are common occurrences for individuals enrolled in Medicaid. These disruptions...
Currently, there is a maternal health crisis both nationally and in Rhode Island. Beyond that, there are unacceptable and persistent disparities in maternal, infant, and child health outcomes by race and ethnicity.
Congress left unfinished business in 2018. Lawmakers considered proposals to create education savings accounts (ESAs) for children in military families, but they failed to agree on how to redirect taxpayer resources from existing programs to create the accounts. In a proposal introduced by Representative Jim Banks (R–IN) and Senator Ben Sasse (R–NE), a portion of federal Impact Aid funding would have been repurposed to help federally connected students in military families find quality learning options.
Current federal law recognizes that all infants born at any stage of development, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the birth, are “persons.” But this recognition alone is insufficient to provide protections for infants born alive following an attempted abortion. The federal Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would augment current law to require that proper medical care be given to an infant born alive following an abortion procedure and impose criminal consequences on health care providers who violate the law.
China was neither transparent nor cooperative about COVID-19. Beijing downplayed the seriousness of the disease, failed to share critical information on human transmission in a timely fashion, suppressed efforts by doctors in China to share samples and genetic information, and permitted Chinese citizens to travel from Wuhan on international flights even after clamping down on domestic travel.