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November 1, 2018
Trump’s HHS Approves Wisconsin’s Legally Suspect Waiver Scheme
State's Waiver Package Would Impose Draconian Barriers to CoverageWashington, D.C - Pushing its agenda to re-write Medicaid law, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved Wisconsin’s Medicaid waiver package that includes additional hurdles to accessing Medicaid coverage.National Health Law Program Legal Director Jane Perkins criticized the Trump administration for continuing its…
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September 28, 2018
Trump Team Works to Wall-Off Immigrants from Medicaid
Jeremy Leaming and Mara Youdelman Eligibility & Enrollment, Health Equity, Homepage, Immigrant Health
From the moment Donald Trump announced his run for the presidency he revealed his intent to inflame the basest of instincts to fuel his ascendency to power. In his two years in office, Trump has stuck to his boorish behavior and has consistently pushed policies targeting people of color,…
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July 26, 2018
Federal Court Blocks Wisconsin Regulation Banning Coverage of Health Care Services for Transgender Medicaid Beneficiaries
Court Found State Medicaid Policy Likely Violates Federal and Constitutional Rights of Wisconsin's Transgender ResidentsWashington – A U.S. District Court in Wisconsin entered a preliminary injunction on July 25 prohibiting the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from continuing to enforce Wisconsin Medicaid's categorical ban on medically necessary gender confirming…
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June 29, 2018
Kentucky Medicaid Waiver Scheme Halted by Federal Court
Trump's HHS Faulted for Agency Overreach; KY Medicaid Waiver Plan Sent Back to HHSWashington - The Trump administration acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in approving Kentucky's Medicaid waiver plan that included numerous obstacles to accessing Medicaid health care services, such as requiring Kentuckians to document work hours…
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June 26, 2018
Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Trample California’s Law Regulating Fake Women’s Health Centers
Ruling Places Free Speech of Anti-Abortion Activists above Calif.'s Interest of Ensuring Fake Clinics Do Not Lie to WomenWashington - The Supreme Court's right-wing justices came together to invalidate, on First Amendment grounds, California's law requiring fake women's health centers to provide women medically accurate and factual information about…
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June 20, 2018
Conservative Groups Pitch Another Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill
Like Last Year's ACA Repeal Efforts, the New Proposal is Aimed at Limiting Access to Health Care and Ending Medicaid ExpansionWashington - Along with the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to sabotage the landmark health care law, the Affordable Care Act, a group of conservative think tanks is pushing another…
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Trump’s HHS Approves Wisconsin’s Legally Suspect Waiver Scheme

Trump Team Works to Wall-Off Immigrants from Medicaid

Federal Court Blocks Wisconsin Regulation Banning Coverage of Health Care Services for Transgender Medicaid Beneficiaries

Kentucky Medicaid Waiver Scheme Halted by Federal Court

Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Trample California’s Law Regulating Fake Women’s Health Centers

Conservative Groups Pitch Another Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill