Georgetown CCF: Medicaid Expansion Can Help Treat Maternal Depression

A mother's untreated depression can hurt children's health and low-income mothers frequently do not get treatment, according to a new Georgetown Center for Children and Families report. Georgetown CCF says Medicaid should expand coverage of depression treatment for mothers. Georgetown CCF found that 55 percent of low-income mothers with infants experience symptoms of depression and 37 percent of low-income mothers have children with major depressive disorders that go untreated. Maternal depression can hurt children throughout their lives because it changes...