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January 8, 2019
A 50th Birthday Prompts Reflection on the Battle To Bring Health Care Reform to the U.S. – Part 1
Elizabeth G. Taylor Uncategorized
Editor’s Note: This National Health Law Program blog series authored by Executive Director Elizabeth G. Taylor delves into the achievements and challenges the organization continues to face in its 50-year fight to make health care a reality for low-income people and underserved communities. The first post in this three-part…
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December 20, 2018
California’s Mandate to Treat Children on Medi-Cal Is Now a Little Clearer
Kimberly Lewis california, Uncategorized
The Medicaid Act, the federal law governing California’s Medi-Cal Program, has long contained specific benefit requirements for covering children and youth under the age of 21 through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment – or “EPSDT” – services mandate. Despite its unmemorable name, this federal mandate critically…
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September 6, 2018
HHS Moves to Thwart Family Planning Vital to Low-Income People
Fabiola Carrión and dfitzgerald Homepage, Uncategorized
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon publish its new rules on Title X, the only federal program dedicated solely to providing family planning and related preventive services. The proposed changes - published on June 1 - will remove critical care that low-income individuals and families have…
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September 6, 2018
Public Comments Can Blunt Attacks on the Affordable Care Act & Medicaid
Hayley Penan Homepage, Uncategorized
In recent months public comments on government attempts to undermine the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid have helped to counter and slow the Trump administration’s agenda to weaken both health care laws that are vital to tens of millions of people from coast to coast.For example, public comments recently…
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August 27, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh May Say ‘Roe’ is Settled Law, But He Has Always Been Anti-Choice.
Candace Gibson, Jennifer Lav, and dfitzgerald california, Homepage, Immigrant Health, Uncategorized
Personal liberty, bodily autonomy, and self-determination are core values of the women’s rights movement, queer liberation, and the disability rights movement. These are rights won through years of struggle. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, is poised to undo much of this progress.In Garza v. Hargan, Judge Kavanaugh blocked an…
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August 17, 2018
Pending Catholic Hospital Mergers Threaten Health Care Access in California Communities
Hayley Penan california, Homepage, Uncategorized
Amidst a slew of recent hospital system acquisitions and consolidations, Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) are seeking to merge into one colossal system. If approved, they would be the largest non-profit hospital system in the country. Dignity Health has 39 hospitals, in California, Arizona, and Nevada, and…
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A 50th Birthday Prompts Reflection on the Battle To Bring Health Care Reform to the U.S. – Part 1

California’s Mandate to Treat Children on Medi-Cal Is Now a Little Clearer

HHS Moves to Thwart Family Planning Vital to Low-Income People

Public Comments Can Blunt Attacks on the Affordable Care Act & Medicaid

Judge Kavanaugh May Say ‘Roe’ is Settled Law, But He Has Always Been Anti-Choice.

Pending Catholic Hospital Mergers Threaten Health Care Access in California Communities