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  • Trump Rescinds DACA, Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

    Washington - The Trump administration's rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is endangering the health and well-being of more than 800,000 young adults who are in school or working, and striving to make a living in this country. National Health Law Program (NHeLP) Executive Director Elizabeth G.…

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  • Access to Mental Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs

    Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are a particularly vulnerable population who use an array of mental health services.  CSHCN are at increased risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions and require health and related services beyond that required by children generally. In the fall of…

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  • Administration’s Sabotage of ACA Continues

    Cuts to Navigator Funding Will Reduce Consumer AssistanceWashington - With the release of a bulletin today slashing millions of dollars in grants to navigators and outreach funds in the federal marketplace, President Trump continues his efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - this time taking aim at the individuals and…

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  • Medicaid is Integral to Children with Complex Health Care Needs

    The U.S. Congress needs constant reminders that Medicaid is about people. Kathleen Béres Rogers, a South Carolina teacher and mother of Julia, who has Down Syndrome, details the importance Medicaid has played in her life in an essay for the National Health Law Program.Medicaid, she writes, “has enabled us…

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  • Children of the Opioid Crisis

    The opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drastically cut federal Medicaid funding threaten the care of the these children, "the hidden victims of the opioid crisis," writes Senior Attorney Jennifer Lav in…

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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to evidence-based, life-saving prevention and treatment services," NHeLP Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado  writes in the tenth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. Hernández-Delgado details how the Senate bill…

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