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    Welcome to our Resource Library. Our library contains over 1600 issue briefs, court documents, guides, and other materials.If you are looking for more general content such as blogs and news, please use the search box at the very top of each page on the website.To use the search function…

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  • Our Work

    An Organization of Expert Health Care Litigators and Policy AdvocatesFounded in 1969, the National Health Law Program fights to protect and expand health rights of low-income individuals, families and underserved communities.Our mission has evolved to include robust policy work in the nation’s capital and in states across the country,…

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  • Federal Court Tosses KY Gov. Matt Bevin’s Attempt to Undermine Legal Challenge to Medicaid Waiver Plan

    Court Finds Bevin Administration Failed to Establish StandingWashington – A U.S. District Court in Kentucky dismissed Governor Matt Bevin's lawsuit that sought to scuttle the legal challenge from Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries against the Trump administration's approval of Bevin's legally suspect Medicaid waiver plan that includes work requirements, lock outs, higher premiums and…

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  • Arkansans Challenge the State’s Medicaid Work Requirements

    Waiver Would Cut Thousands of Low-Income Individuals from MedicaidWashington – In a federal lawsuit lodged today in the District of Columbia, Arkansans are challenging approval of Arkansas’s request to condition the receipt of health coverage on an onerous work requirement. The approval will lead to thousands of low-income individuals and…

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  • National Health Law Program Board of Directors Announcement

    Health Law Program Seeks Additional Board MembersWashington - The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) invites you to submit names of individuals who would be strong additions to NHeLP’s Board of Directors. Recommendations should be submitted to Governance Committee Co-Chairs, Ron Wisor ([email protected]) and Ann Kappler ( [email protected]).  Selection of new board…

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    Fighting for Health Rights for AllAttorneys litigating in state and federal courts and policy advocates fighting to advance access to quality health care for low-income and underserved individuals. Algorithms and other automated decision-making systems (ADS) are omnipresent features of Medicaid. ADS make decisions about eligibility…

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