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December 1, 2024
World AIDS Day 2024 – Fight AIDS! Protect Medicaid!
Wayne Turner Health Equity, Medicaid Defense 2025
Gerald Lee Joyce died from AIDS at age 43 on February 10, 2017. His sister recounted his final months on The AIDS Memorial, an Instagram account to remember those lost to this terrible disease that continues to take some 20,000 lives in the U.S. every year. Gerald had no…
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July 27, 2023
How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice
Madeline Morcelle Health Equity, Immigrant Health, SRH Health Equity
The United States (U.S.) has a long history of regulating and restricting immigrants’ self-determination over their health, bodies, reproduction, families, and futures. Moreover, Medicaid eligibility has always been shaped by white supremacist notions of which people are worthy of access to health care, a basic human right. In 1996,…
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May 23, 2023
Where Are We With LGBTQI+ Inclusive Health Data? One Year After President Biden’s LGBTQI+ Equity EO
Naomi G. Goldberg 1557, Health Equity
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May 16, 2023
NHeLP’s Automated Decision-Making Principles in Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding
Cassandra LaRose Automated Decision-Making, Disability, Eligibility & Enrollment, Health Equity, Uncategorized
NHeLP’s Principles for Fairer, More Responsive Automated Decision-Making Systems outline how to realize the benefits of Automated Decision-Making Systems (ADS) while minimizing drawbacks. Many government agencies use ADS for Medicaid eligibility decisions. During the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage period Medicaid eligibility ADS and related processes will be…
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April 21, 2023
Proposed Medicaid Work Requirements are Another Dangerous Attack on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice
Madeline Morcelle Abortion, Health Equity, Protect Medicaid 2023, SRH Health Equity
The year is 2023, and a growing movement of Republican lawmakers are attacking sexual and reproductive health care access on all fronts. Restrictions such as the Hyde amendment have been in place for decades, but have escalated since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
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April 20, 2023
Work Requirements are a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea for Medicaid
Mara Youdelman Health Equity, Protect Medicaid 2023
Speaker McCarthy released his long-awaited proposal to address the debt ceiling. As expected, he included a provision to impose work requirements in Medicaid. For the National Health Law Program, Medicaid is our bread-and-butter. We were founded over 50 years ago to protect and expand on Medicaid and we still…
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World AIDS Day 2024 – Fight AIDS! Protect Medicaid!

How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice

Where Are We With LGBTQI+ Inclusive Health Data? One Year After President Biden’s LGBTQI+ Equity EO

NHeLP’s Automated Decision-Making Principles in Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding

Proposed Medicaid Work Requirements are Another Dangerous Attack on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice

Work Requirements are a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea for Medicaid