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  • Marketplace Enrollment Resources

    In the Loop was an innovative online community for enrollment assisters jointly run by Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) from October 2012- May 2019. In the Loop provided crucial support for over 5,000 enrollment assisters who received real-time answers to enrollment questions and best practices from other…

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  • Arkansas’ Work Requirement Disaster is Coming to Indiana

    HHS CMS Administrator Seema VermaIn 2019, for the first time, Indiana’s Medicaid program will require adults to work or volunteer each month to keep their health coverage. Under the Healthy Indiana Plan, the state will take away Medicaid coverage from people who do not report enough work hours,…

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  • Philbrick v. Becerra, D.D.C., D.C. Circuit, and Supreme Court

    Litigation Team

    Four low-income individuals from New Hampshire enrolled in Medicaid filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its approval of New Hampshire’s Medicaid waiver project, which includes an illegal work requirement and cuts to services, such as retroactive coverage. Partners: New Hampshire Legal Assistance, National Center for…

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  • New Federal Religious Refusals Rule Puts Beliefs of Providers Above Patient Care

    HHS Sec. Alex AzarThe Trump administration recently released a long-promised rule intended to expand already generous abilities of health care providers to cite their religious or moral beliefs in denying vital care to patients, whose requests for services may offend those personal proclivities. The final rule, “Protecting Statutory…

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  • When One Word Makes All the Difference

    An immensely popular provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows youth to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26. A similar provision enables youth aging out of foster care to stay on Medicaid until age 26, but one small drafting error derailed the plan for many youth…

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  • Doula Medicaid Project

    About the Doula Medicaid Project The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project seeks to improve health outcomes for Medicaid enrollees by ensuring that all pregnant and postpartum people enrolled in Medicaid who want access to a doula will have one.Low-income people in the United States are at a…

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