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September 13, 2017
Group of Republican Senators Launch Another Attack on the Affordable Care Act
Bill Pushed by Sens. Graham, Cassidy, Heller and Johnson Would Also Impose Draconian Cuts on MedicaidWashington - Despite claims of a bipartisan health care bill, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) today unveiled a measure that contains most, if not…
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August 25, 2017
S.C. Gov. Issues Order Targeting Health Services of Low-Income Women
Gov. McMaster’s Action Asks State Medicaid Agency to Seek Federal Waiver to Exclude From Medicaid Any Providers Who Offer Abortion Services Washington - Citing his staunch anti-abortion stances, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a sweeping order to bar all public funding to physicians and health centers that provide…
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August 23, 2017
The Ongoing, Vital Battle to Protect Medicaid
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Right-wing activists were quick to attack Medicaid and Medicare enacted by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in summer 1965 as socialism – a distasteful if not threatening term to America in the 1960s (and today). LBJ did not see it that way, nor did FDR, or Harry Truman, who was…
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August 15, 2017
CBO Says Trump Administration Refusal to Pay ACA Cost Sharing Reduction Payments Would Cause Health Care Premiums to Spike
Insurers Would Exit Marketplaces, Leaving Many People Without OptionsWashington - If the Trump administration refuses to fund the Affordable Care Act's provisions that ensure lower costs for low-income individuals, premiums will spike by 20 percent next year for the majority of patients and insurers will leave the marketplace, according…
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August 14, 2017
National Health Law Program Says Racial Hatred Has No Place in a Just Society
Group Blasts Violence Aimed at Harming and Subjugating Black Communities Washington - The National Health Law Program, (NHeLP), almost 50 years-old, fought in its early years against an unacceptable way of life in many parts of the country — separate hospitals, ones for whites and ones for people of…
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August 4, 2017
NHeLP Opposes Texas’ Effort to Limit Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care
So-Called 'Healthy Texas Women' Limits Access to Family Planning and Preventive Care ServicesWashington - The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) in August 4 comments to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) urged it to reject Texas' "Healthy Texas Women" application because it limits low-income women's access to…
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Group of Republican Senators Launch Another Attack on the Affordable Care Act

S.C. Gov. Issues Order Targeting Health Services of Low-Income Women

The Ongoing, Vital Battle to Protect Medicaid

CBO Says Trump Administration Refusal to Pay ACA Cost Sharing Reduction Payments Would Cause Health Care Premiums to Spike

National Health Law Program Says Racial Hatred Has No Place in a Just Society

NHeLP Opposes Texas’ Effort to Limit Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care