Meredith L. King
Health Policy Research Analyst
Meredith L. King serves as the Health Policy Research Analyst at American Progress. As a member of the health team, King collaborates with staff and senior fellows in advancing a broad range of health issues, including universal health care. Prior to joining the Center, King worked at the Health Assistance Partnership of Families USA, serving as the Medicaid Research Analyst. In that job, she worked with a network of Medicaid ombudsmen and consumer health assistance programs by supplying them the latest information regarding Medicaid policy in their respective states. She also lent technical assistance around the implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
King obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Policy and American History from Washington and Lee University in 2003. In May 2005, she completed a Masters of Public Policy with a concentration in Social Policy from American University.
Articles by Meredith L. King
- Neighborhood Realities: Media Focus on Poverty, Race, and Health, April 11, 2008
- Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities, January 15, 2008
- Immigrants and Health Care, August 16, 2007
- Immigrants in the U.S. Health Care System, June 7, 2007
- The SCHIP Shortfall Crisis: Ramifications for Minority Children , March 21, 2007
- Community Health Interventions, February 26, 2007
- Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Cover the Uninsured!, May 3, 2006
- African-Americans: Preventive Screening Can Save Your Life, February 27, 2006
- Unnecessary Documentation, December 21, 2005
- Keeping Health Care in Welfare to Work, December 14, 2005
- Opportunity in America Starts with Health Care, September 28, 2005
- Medicaid: Give It Another 40, July 29, 2005