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December 18, 2025
NHeLP Condemns Escalating Attacks on Gender-Affirming Health Care Access for Young People
Washington, D.C. – This week, the Trump administration issued several proposed rules that, if implemented, would significantly restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth nationwide and increase discrimination against transgender people. The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) condemns this blatant attack on transgender individuals and reaffirms that…
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December 10, 2025
NHeLP Denounces Department of Justice Final Rule Rescinding Historic Anti-Discrimination Protections
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, the Department of Justice issued a final rule rescinding the disparate effects provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The rollback, effective immediately, strips away a powerful civil rights tool available to identify and address policies and practices that harm Black, Indigenous, and…
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December 3, 2025
Checking All the Boxes: A Survey of Medical Frailty Definitions in Alternative Benefit Plans and Section 1115 Work Requirements Demonstrations
Shandra Hartly Issue Brief
Individuals who are considered medically frail have traditionally been subject to different eligibility and coverage rules in the Medicaid program. Most recently, H.R. 1 exempted medically frail individuals from new work requirement imposed on Medicaid expansion populations. This survey provides information on the use of medical frailty in the…
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July 28, 2023
Medicaid Unwinding Presents Nationwide Challenges as Health Program Celebrates 58 Years
Washington, DC - As we approach the 58th anniversary of the Medicaid Act, the National Health Law Program continues to enforce, protect, and advocate for Medicaid in the face of a rapidly shifting and fraught landscape. For over half a century, our legal and policy experts have championed this…
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July 25, 2023
On ADA Anniversary, NHeLP Reflects on Fight for Disability Rights
The National Health Law Program’s senior attorney, M. Geron Gadd, released the following statement in commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act:Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act has been an indispensable tool in the fight to expand and enforce civil rights…
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March 6, 2023
NHeLP Joins with Others in Mourning the Passing of Judith Heumann
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) joins others in mourning the loss of Judith (“Judy”) Heumann, fierce disability rights leader, educator and advocate. Heumann passed away on March 4, 2023 in Washington, D.C.Judy Heumann was born in Philadelphia in 1947, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. A wheelchair user…
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NHeLP Condemns Escalating Attacks on Gender-Affirming Health Care Access for Young People

NHeLP Denounces Department of Justice Final Rule Rescinding Historic Anti-Discrimination Protections

Checking All the Boxes: A Survey of Medical Frailty Definitions in Alternative Benefit Plans and Section 1115 Work Requirements Demonstrations

Medicaid Unwinding Presents Nationwide Challenges as Health Program Celebrates 58 Years

On ADA Anniversary, NHeLP Reflects on Fight for Disability Rights

NHeLP Joins with Others in Mourning the Passing of Judith Heumann