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  • Waiver 1115 Information

    Section 1115 Medicaid waivers allow states to explore new options for providing health coverage to persons who would otherwise not be eligible and allow states to examine innovative ways to deliver care by waiving certain requirements of the Medicaid Act.While waivers can be important tools that can help states…

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  • Sec. 1115 Waiver Tracking Chart

    Sec. 1115 of the Social Security Act allows the Secretary of HHS to waive some requirements of the Medicaid Act so that states can test novel approaches to improving medical assistance for low-income people. While historically states have proposed waivers that did indeed propose innovative approaches to improve Medicaid…

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  • HHS Moves to Thwart Family Planning Vital to Low-Income People

    Fabiola Carrión and Homepage, Uncategorized

    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon publish its new rules on Title X, the only federal program dedicated solely to providing family planning and related preventive services. The proposed changes - published on June 1 - will remove critical care that low-income individuals and families have…

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    Our employees are NOT acting as your attorney.  Responses you receive via electronic mail, phone, or in any other manner DO NOT create or constitute an attorney-client relationship between you and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), or any employee of, or other person associated with, NHeLP.Information received from…

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  • Judge Kavanaugh May Say ‘Roe’ is Settled Law, But He Has Always Been Anti-Choice.

    Candace Gibson, Jennifer Lav, and california, Homepage, Immigrant Health, Uncategorized

    Personal liberty, bodily autonomy, and self-determination are core values of the women’s rights movement, queer liberation, and the disability rights movement. These are rights won through years of struggle. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, is poised to undo much of this progress.In Garza v. Hargan, Judge Kavanaugh blocked an…

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