Health Advocate Blog

Analysis and Commentary

May 15, 2020
California v. Texas: The ACA Litigation Saga Continues
Jane Perkins
On May 13, 2020, 39 amici curiae (friends of the court) briefs were filed in California v. Texas, the…
May 12, 2020
COVID-19 Crisis: Unspoken Impacts on Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities
Miriam Delaney Heard
COVID-19 has triggered a national and public health emergency (PHE). To date, nearly one million people have been diagnosed…
May 12, 2020
Home-Based Care under COVID-19: A Do No Harm Approach to Assessing Needs
David Machledt and Elizabeth Edwards
Medicaid commonly uses functional assessments to determine eligibility for services as well as the type and amount of services…
May 6, 2020
Telehealth and Disability: Challenges and Opportunities for Care
Daniel Young and Elizabeth Edwards
In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published guidance…
May 1, 2020
Streamlining Medicaid Enrollment During COVID-19
Hannah Eichner and Sarah Grusin
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health coverage is more important than ever. States are seeing a surge in Medicaid applications,…
April 30, 2020
Can Coronavirus (COVID-19) be the Tipping Point for Health Equity?
Zamir Brown
If the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taught us one thing already, it is that we are not all the…
April 30, 2020
Leave No Californian Behind: California’s Efforts to Ease Access to Medi-Cal During the Pandemic
Alicia Emanuel
As the number of COVID-19 cases across the country continue to steadily rise, many of us here in California…
April 29, 2020
Disability, Race, and Structural Inequity: COVID-19 and the Long-Term Care Workforce
David Machledt
A recent NPR investigation into nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks revealed one factor strongly correlated with the most affected facilities.…
April 27, 2020
Medi-Cal Applications Must Be Processed Even When Local Medi-Cal Offices are Closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Skyler Rosellini
The impact of the COVID-19 public health crisis is being felt across the nation. Given the serious illness and…