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May 2, 2019
Trump Administration Announces New Rule Endorsing Discrimination in Health Care System
Washington - The Trump administration issued a new rule that will harm the health and well-being of low-income women and LGBTQ individuals and families. Trump’s latest regulation expands current refusal laws, allowing providers and institutions involved in the delivery of health care to refuse to provide services based on…
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April 30, 2019
Fighting Back Against Trump Health Care Sabotage
Wayne Turner Homepage
*Craig Ismaili, a legal intern for the National Health Law Program, is co-author of this post. When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it provided a transition period for “grandfathered plans” as a transition to health plans that fully comply with the ACA’s robust protections and coverage…
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April 29, 2019
Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care
Mara Youdelman Manual/Report
About Language Access: With growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health care and the need for the health care systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patient populations, language access is a matter of national importance. High quality language access services allow individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP)…
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April 29, 2019
A Victory for ACA Marketplaces and Access to Health Care Services for Low-Income Individuals and Families
Candace Gibson and Fabiola De Liban Homepage
Advocates for access and coverage of health care for low-income individuals and families, particularly reproductive health services, have had to respond to numerous regulatory attacks since the inception of the Trump administration. Though we have suffered many setbacks, we do have one reason to celebrate.Every year, the Department of…
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April 26, 2019
Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care
A U.S. District Court Judge in Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction on April 23 invalidating the state’s categorical exclusion of coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care and treatments for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. The injunction bars enforcement of Wisconsin’s discriminatory exclusion, which has been in effect since 1997, to deny…
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April 25, 2019
Doula Medicaid Project
About the Doula Medicaid Project.The National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project seeks to improve health outcomes for pregnant Medicaid enrollees by ensuring that all pregnant individuals enrolled in Medicaid who want access to a doula, will have one.Low-income women are at the highest risk of poor birth outcomes…
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Trump Administration Announces New Rule Endorsing Discrimination in Health Care System

Fighting Back Against Trump Health Care Sabotage

Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care

A Victory for ACA Marketplaces and Access to Health Care Services for Low-Income Individuals and Families

Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care

Doula Medicaid Project