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Other Reports and Research

In addition to the Program’s signature policy briefs and data notes, the Geiger Gibson Program faculty and staff author peer-reviewed publications, reports and blogs for prestigious health policy outlets such as The Commonwealth Fund, Health Affairs, Kaiser Family Foundation, and The Milbank Quarterly. Additionally, the program’s legal research and impact analyses is presented in amicus scholars briefs designed to provide the courts with expert analyses of the implications of legal actions under review.

 

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Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children

In this analysis in the Commonwealth Fund's To the Point, the Geiger Gibson Program shows that in 2020, 21 percent of  children who were enrolled in Medicaid and generally counted in a "child" category - one in five - fell into an optional eligibility group. As Congress considers unprecedented cuts to Medicaid funding, children whose eligibility is not required by federal law are at risk of losing their health care coverage.

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Eligibility Assistance Increases Insurance Enrollment Within Community Health Centers But Not At The State Level

In an article in the May 2025 edition of Health Affairs, Leighton Ku, Kristine Namhee Kwon, Feygele Jacobs and Sara Rosenbaum examine the effects of eligibility assistance on insurance enrollment at both the health center and state levels, finding that eligibility assistance modestly increases insurance coverage among health center patients, but this assistance does not significantly increase overall Medicaid, CHIP, or Marketplace enrollment, nor does it raise federal expenditures.

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A New Formula for Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payments Based on a Comprehensive Cost Evaluation

A cost evaluation of the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) program was conducted to measure direct medical education (DME) and indirect medical education (IME) costs, assess the effect of teaching health center (THC) characteristics on residency training costs, and develop a method and formula for per-resident amount (PRA) payments in baseline and future years for the THCGME program. The cost evaluation revealed that the per-resident amount (PRA) payments currently used in the THCGME program underfunds actual net training costs. The analysis is published in Academic Medicine

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How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets

In this Commonwealth Fund brief, authors Leighton Ku, Taylor Gorak, Kristine Namhee Kwon, Maddie Krips, Leticia Nketiah and Joseph J. Cordes estimate the state-level economic, employment, and budgetary impact of a nationwide Medicaid work requirement and a reduction in DC’s federal Medicaid matching rate.

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‘Limit Save Grow’ Medicaid Work Mandate Legislation: The Worst Way To Operationalize A Bad Policy

In Health Affairs Forefront, Sara Rosenbaum and Alex Somodevilla discuss Medicaid work mandate legislation and examine the 2023 House-passed "Limit Save Grow" Act.

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History Repeats? Faced with Medicaid Cuts, States Reduced Support for Older Adults and Disabled People

In an article for Health Affairs Forefront, Jessica Schubel, Alison Barkoff, H. Stephen Kaye, Marc Cohen, and Jane Tavares explore the impact of proposed Medicaid cuts on older adults and people with disabilities, particularly on Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). “History Repeats? Faced with Medicaid Cuts, States Reduced Support for Older Adults and Disabled People” (April 16, 2025). A related table with state-level data of reductions can be found here.

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Public comment filed by APHA and GWU public health scholars on CMS "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Marketplace Integrity and Affordability"

Public comment by APHA and GWU public health scholars on CMS proposed regulation, CMS-9884-P, titled "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Marketplace Integrity and Affordability," as filed on April 7, 2025.

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How Potential Federal Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Could Trigger the Loss of a Million-Plus Jobs, Reduced Economic Activity, and Less State Revenue

Report from The Commonwealth Fund and GWU’s Milken Institute School of Public Health analyzes the impact of potential federal funding cuts of least $880 billion in Medicaid and $230 billion to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over 10 years. The report shows that if implemented, these cuts could result in the loss of 1 million jobs, a $113 billion decline in states’ gross domestic products (GDPs), and loss of $8.8 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2026 alone. Medicaid and SNAP cuts could cause a combined $1.1 trillion loss to critical programs and services nationwide by 2035.

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The Cost of Eliminating the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits

New report from the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health finds that if Congress allows enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025, communities nationwide will experience significant economic impacts.

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In States with Abortion Bans, Community Health Center Patients Face Challenges Getting Reproductive Health Care

Writing for Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point, blog examines how community health center patients and providers have been directly and adversely affected by the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.