Plans To Extend Postpartum Medicaid Quashed In WA, VA Due To COVID-19

The Virginia General Assembly on Wednesday (April 22) agreed to pause a proposal to extend Medicaid for more low-income women up to a year after giving birth, falling in the footsteps of Washington state and squashing the hopes of maternal health advocates as COVID-19 stretches state budgets. Both Washington and Virginia’s Democratic governors earlier this month had moved to respectively veto or pause bills to extend coverage that had been approved by the state legislature, citing COVID-19 as the cause...