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Medicaid and Child Health Equity

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  • James M. Perrin, M.D.,
  • Genevieve M. Kenney, Ph.D.,
  • and Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.

For children, no other insurer has equaled Medicaid’s comprehensive coverage and cost-sharing protections. But Medicaid also has important limitations, and the imperative to achieve racial and socioeconomic health equity demands structural changes to the program.

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Funding and Disclosures

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available at NEJM.org.

This article was published on December 23, 2020, at NEJM.org.

Author Affiliations

From the MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School, Boston (J.M.P.); and the Urban Institute (G.M.K.) and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University (S.R.) — both in Washington, DC.

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