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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Medi-Cal Affordability

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, promotes ensuring low-income residents and those mired in poverty are able to access quality health care. For example, California, has strong protections to restrict premiums and other cost barriers to health care for the state's most vulnerable populations. In the fifth Issue Brief of a…

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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Medi-Cal Services

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides comprehensive health care services to more than 13 million in the state. That care, which includes hospitalization, physician services and preventive screenings for children and adults, is threatened by proposed Medicaid cuts in the so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), now pending in the…

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  • Medicaid Caps and the Opioid Epidemic

    Medicaid is the largest source of health care coverage for individuals with substance use disorders, NHeLP Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado writes in this month's "Health Advocate." He details how slashing Medicaid funding, as proposed in the so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), would result in millions of individuals losing SUD treatment.…

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