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October 30, 2025
Webinar – The Impact of OBBBA on People with Disabilities
Jennifer Lav, Brit Vanneman, and Elizabeth Zirker
This webinar discusses the impact of OBBBA on people with disabilities, including: Work requirement exemptions and compliance for people with disabilities New authority related to home and community-based waivers Higher out-of-pocket costs, which means people with disabilities will likely pay more for care Changes to home equity limits for…
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July 8, 2025
Voluntary Industry Prior Authorization Commitments: Empty Promises, Little Accountability
Brit Vanneman Uncategorized
AHIP, the national trade association representing the health insurance industry, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association recently announced a set of “voluntary commitments” to “streamline” prior authorization and “improve patient outcomes.” Major insurers including Aetna, Centene, Cigna, Elevance Health, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare have signed on.These commitments appear to…
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June 10, 2025
Medicaid Work Requirements in Republicans’ So-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” are a Declaration of War on Working Families
Andy DiAntonio, Madeline Morcelle, and Brit Vanneman Medicaid Defense 2025, Uncategorized
Across the country, millions of people are working long hours, lacing up steel-toed boots, pulling on scrubs, and tying on aprons. They’re cleaning hotel rooms, answering phones, processing meat, driving school buses, filing records, building houses, restocking shelves, and caring for our loved ones. These jobs are hard, physical,…
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May 19, 2025
More Medicaid Cuts, More Delays: The Cost of Prior Authorization
Brit Vanneman Medicaid Defense 2025
Prior authorization is one of the biggest administrative burdens in the U.S. health care system. Marketed as a tool to ensure health services are "medically necessary" and appropriate, it has morphed into a profit-driven maze that payers use to delay, discourage, and deny care— especially in Medicaid, where nearly…
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May 16, 2025
Top 10 Ways the House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Will Harm People with Disabilities
Brit Vanneman, Shandra Hartly, Dania Douglas, and Cat Duffy Fact Sheet
*This article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for Medicaid and health care access. The bill passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee undermines essential supports for people with disabilities. By slashing Medicaid funding and imposing administrative hurdles,…
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May 15, 2025
Big Government Republican Bill Keeps States from Reining in Bad AI: A 10-year License for Unfettered Harm
Elizabeth Edwards and Brit Vanneman Automated Decision-Making, Medicaid Defense 2025
In an era of artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of automated decision-making systems making decisions about people’s lives, people are rightly worried about how AI may affect their jobs, use their posts, invade their privacy, and affect their access to sound medical care. AI experts and the public…
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Webinar – The Impact of OBBBA on People with Disabilities

Voluntary Industry Prior Authorization Commitments: Empty Promises, Little Accountability

Medicaid Work Requirements in Republicans’ So-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” are a Declaration of War on Working Families

More Medicaid Cuts, More Delays: The Cost of Prior Authorization

Top 10 Ways the House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Will Harm People with Disabilities

Big Government Republican Bill Keeps States from Reining in Bad AI: A 10-year License for Unfettered Harm