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Verma unveils Medicaid scorecard but refuses to judge efforts


 


Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University in Washington, who previously led a congressional advisory board on Medicaid, suggested that the information is still too incomplete to be of great value.

“It is amazing to me that in 2018 this is all we have when trying to understand how the nation’s largest insurer performs for its poorest and most vulnerable residents,” she said.

KHN’s coverage of children’s health care issues is supported in part by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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