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June 27, 2019
Supreme Court Sends Commerce Department’s Politically Motivated Census Citizenship Question Back to New York Federal Court
National Health Law Program Urges Action to Ensure an Accurate 2020 CensusWashington, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to remand the U.S. Commerce Department’s lawsuit to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census to a federal court in New York, stalling the politically driven effort to…
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May 2, 2019
Trump Administration Announces New Rule Endorsing Discrimination in Health Care System
Washington - The Trump administration issued a new rule that will harm the health and well-being of low-income women and LGBTQ individuals and families. Trump’s latest regulation expands current refusal laws, allowing providers and institutions involved in the delivery of health care to refuse to provide services based on…
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April 26, 2019
Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care
A U.S. District Court Judge in Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction on April 23 invalidating the state’s categorical exclusion of coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care and treatments for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. The injunction bars enforcement of Wisconsin’s discriminatory exclusion, which has been in effect since 1997, to deny…
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April 9, 2019
Federal Judge Preliminarily Approves Class Action Settlement Over California’s Failure to Arrange Medi-Cal In-Home Nursing Care for Children
More Than 4,000 children in Calif. are Eligible for In-Home Nursing -- Many Do Not Receive the Care They are PrescribedSan Francisco - A federal judge granted preliminary approval for settlement of a class action lawsuit that will enable children and youth with complex medical needs to get the…
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April 2, 2019
Despite Litigation, Trump Administration Continues Push to Undermine Medicaid Expansion
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It is no secret that the Trump administration is bent on “exploding” Medicaid expansion. As part of that effort, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has given 10 states permission to implement projects that require individuals to work or complete work-related activities to maintain their coverage.U.S. District…
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March 20, 2019
New Hampshire Low-Income Individuals Sue Trump HHS for Approval of State’s Burdensome Medicaid Waiver Project
Washington, D.C. - Low-income individuals in New Hampshire, represented by a group of health care advocates, sued the Trump administration challenging its approval of the State’s “Granite Advantage” Section 1115 Medicaid waiver project that conditions Medicaid health coverage on work requirements, and cuts vital services like retroactive coverage. The…
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Supreme Court Sends Commerce Department’s Politically Motivated Census Citizenship Question Back to New York Federal Court

Trump Administration Announces New Rule Endorsing Discrimination in Health Care System

Federal Court Issues Statewide Injunction Against Wisconsin’s Medicaid Exclusion of Transgender Health Care

Federal Judge Preliminarily Approves Class Action Settlement Over California’s Failure to Arrange Medi-Cal In-Home Nursing Care for Children

Despite Litigation, Trump Administration Continues Push to Undermine Medicaid Expansion

New Hampshire Low-Income Individuals Sue Trump HHS for Approval of State’s Burdensome Medicaid Waiver Project