Health Advocate Blog

Analysis and Commentary

April 23, 2018
Trump Rule Targets Landmark Health Care Law by Weakening Essential Health Benefits’ Standards
Candace Gibson, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Wayne Turner
Sixty-seven percent of consumers believe that the top health care priority should be to lower out-of-pocket costs, instead of…
April 13, 2018
Closed formularies in Medicaid are No Solution for Lowering Drug Costs
Abigail Coursolle and Wayne Turner
For people living at or near the federal poverty line, Medicaid coverage can literally mean the difference between living…
April 5, 2018
Closing the Door on Patients: Trump’s Expansion of Religious Refusals
Candace Gibson
In the last year, we have seen the Trump administration repeatedly attack and sabotage programs that ensure individuals and…
April 4, 2018
The Ongoing Struggle to Ensure Dental Care Access for Low-Income Californians
Hayley Penan
California lawmakers appear to be realizing that cutting dental care services out of its Medicaid program was not only…
March 26, 2018
In Face of Hostile Trump Administration, Washington State Takes Action to Protect and Expand Access to Reproductive Health Care
Liz McCaman Taylor
Washington state recently passed a suite of laws that expand and protect access to quality, affordable reproductive health care.…
March 23, 2018
Proposed HHS Rules Will Reduce Access to Medicaid Services
Abigail Coursolle
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed changes to the Medicaid “equal access” rule that are…
March 16, 2018
As We Celebrate International Women’s Month, California Remains a National Leader on Women’s Health Care
Fabiola De Liban
March marks International Women’s Month, and we celebrate this by recounting how California has, through implementation of the Affordable…
March 14, 2018
Medicaid: The New Public Option?
Jennifer Lav
A year ago, Medicaid expansion was under intense assault, and the threat of repeal was all too real. In…
February 14, 2018
Health Care’s Seven Dirty Words
Elizabeth G. Taylor
On December 16, 2017, participants in a meeting at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that an administration…