Health Advocate Blog

Analysis and Commentary

August 19, 2020
Medicaid Beneficiaries Need Better Access to Behavioral Telehealth Services
Abigail Coursolle and Allison Smith
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are receiving behavioral health treatment through telehealth services. While using telehealth technology…
August 19, 2020
NHeLP “Friend of the Court” Brief Seeks to Open the Courthouse Doors to Nursing Facility Resident
Jane Perkins
In the late 1980s, an Institute of Medicine study revealed dangerous and demeaning living conditions in nursing facilities across…
August 18, 2020
On the Centennial of (White) Women’s Suffrage, Reproductive Health Injustice Persists
Madeline Morcelle
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and with it, White women’s suffrage. This…
August 13, 2020
More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19
David Machledt
In early July, the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern part of Oklahoma remains Indian Country for the purposes…
August 11, 2020
The Effects of COVID-19 on America’s Hispanic and Latinx Communities
Miriam Delaney Heard
"Face challenges, fear, and frustration by seeking out knowledge and opportunities for growth."--Fanny MairenaCOVID-19 has plunged numerous nations into…
August 10, 2020
Homelessness and Health in the Time of COVID-19
Hannah Eichner
Housing and health have always been inextricably linked– but never has that been more apparent than during the COVID-19…
August 7, 2020
Black, Disabled, and Uncounted
Daniel Young
Black people with disabilities are in a health equity crisis in the United States that is compounded by the…
August 6, 2020
Como se dice “discrimination” en Espanol?
Mara Youdelman
I’ve worked in Washington DC for over 20 years and I still have a hard time following all that…
August 6, 2020
Health Insurers Should Be Wary of Trump Regulatory Rollback
Wayne Turner
Confusion. Uncertainty. Such is the entirely predictable result of the Trump administration’s latest ignominy. In a final rule published…