Episode #47: Andy Schneider
Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy.
Medicaid plays an essential role in child health financing, especially for children and youth in foster care.
Understanding Medicaid policy today means excavating sedimentary layers from decades of decisions, each embodying earlier eras.
Over time, that’s how you can end up with something like custody for care, where some young people enter foster care not for neglect or abuse, but because it’s the only way to finance their treatment.
Understanding how policy emerges from accumulated layers of decisions is not a philosophical exercise; it’s how policy wonks determine where we are, where we could go, and what leverage points could get us there.
And if Medicaid is best understood as a sedimentary structure, today’s guest is one of its foremost geologists.
Andy Schneider is a Research Professor of the Practice at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. He has over 50 years of experience working on the Medicaid program as a Hill staffer, senior CMS advisor, private consultant, and public interest attorney.
Whether you’re a preeminent Medicaid expert, or someone who knows just enough to be dangerous, this conversation will deepen your understanding of how Medicaid’s past shapes its present, and what that means for the future of child health policy.
