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April 8, 2019
How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People
Priscilla Huang and Candace Gibson Health Equity, Homepage, SRH Health Equity
Health care advocates celebrated when a federal judge recently blocked Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that condition Medicaid coverage on mandatory work requirements and other cuts to coverage. The Trump administration approved (and encouraged) states to impose such requirements in a backdoor effort to undermine Medicaid and…
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January 22, 2019
Reflections on ‘Roe’ (from our Reproductive Health and Justice team)
Fabiola De Liban, Amy Chen, Candace Gibson, Priscilla Huang, Liz McCaman Taylor, Hayley Penan, and Susan Berke Fogel Homepage
Fabiola Carrión, a senior attorney in National Health Law Program’s LA office and a longtime reproductive health justice advocate.We are thankful that Roe v. Wade held that abortion is a right for every person in the United States. However, the Roe promise is still not a reality for those who cannot afford…
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December 7, 2018
Public Charge Will Reverse the Golden State’s Progress Towards Health Equity
Priscilla Huang california, Health Equity, Homepage, Immigrant Health
Trump administration in early fall published a long-anticipated proposed rule that would have dramatic and detrimental impacts on the health and well-being of immigrant families in California. The rule seeks to redefine an immigration law concept known as “public charge.” If implemented, the rule could harm hundreds of thousands…
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November 7, 2018
Comments to DHS Regarding Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Children
Jennifer Lav, Priscilla Huang, Alicia Emanuel, and Amy Chen Comments
The National Health Law Program urges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to withdraw a proposal to allow DHS to detain children with their families for the entirety of their immigration proceedings--in effect, indefinitely. Detention is neither generally safe nor…
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September 18, 2018
National Health Law Program: Comments on Sterilization Consent Form
Priscilla Huang, Candace Gibson, and dfitzgerald Comments
Established in the 1970s, the Medicaid Consent for Sterilization policy was, and remains, a much-needed protection against coercive sterilization practices.The United States has an ugly history of forcibly sterilizing low-income people, and particularly targeting low-income women, women of color, immigrant women, and women with disabilities to advance eugenics principles.…
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August 10, 2018
Fact Sheet: Medicaid & Reproductive Justice
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang Fact Sheet
Reproductive justice is a social movement rooted in the belief that all individuals and communities should have the resources and power they need to make their own decisions about their bodies, genders, sexualities, families, and lives. In this fact sheet, the National Health Law Program along with All* Above All, National Asian Pacific…
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How Medicaid Work Requirements Harm Women, LGBTQ People

Reflections on ‘Roe’ (from our Reproductive Health and Justice team)

Public Charge Will Reverse the Golden State’s Progress Towards Health Equity

Comments to DHS Regarding Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Children

National Health Law Program: Comments on Sterilization Consent Form

Fact Sheet: Medicaid & Reproductive Justice