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April 5, 2018
Closing the Door on Patients: Trump’s Expansion of Religious Refusals
Candace Gibson Health Equity, Uncategorized
In the last year, we have seen the Trump administration repeatedly attack and sabotage programs that ensure individuals and families struggling to make ends meet have the health coverage they need. While Trump and his administration seek to hurt individuals enrolled in the Medicaid program and in Marketplace plans,…
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April 4, 2018
The Ongoing Struggle to Ensure Dental Care Access for Low-Income Californians
Hayley Penan california, Uncategorized
California lawmakers appear to be realizing that cutting dental care services out of its Medicaid program was not only unwise, but has exacerbated health care problems for the state's most underserved individuals and communities – people who struggle to make ends meet on low-incomes and African Americans who have…
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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 california, Uncategorized
Washington state recently passed a suite of laws that expand and protect access to quality, affordable reproductive health care. These critical victories, many of which came after several years of community advocacy, are part of a larger trend of state legislation aiming to bolster protections for contraceptive coverage, abortion…
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March 23, 2018
Proposed HHS Rules Will Reduce Access to Medicaid Services
Abigail Coursolle Uncategorized
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed changes to the Medicaid “equal access” rule that are intended to erode beneficiaries’ access to covered Medicaid services.As background, state Medicaid programs must set payment rates to ensure provider participation such that Medicaid services are available at least as…
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March 16, 2018
As We Celebrate International Women’s Month, California Remains a National Leader on Women’s Health Care
Fabiola De Liban california, Uncategorized
March marks International Women’s Month, and we celebrate this by recounting how California has, through implementation of the Affordable Care Act and Medi-Cal, protected and expanded health care access for women in spite of the Trump administration’s attacks against women’s health care.Medi-Cal is a program that benefits women (by…
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March 14, 2018
Medicaid: The New Public Option?
Jennifer Lav Uncategorized
A year ago, Medicaid expansion was under intense assault, and the threat of repeal was all too real. In the face of these attacks, the Nevada Legislature asked a simple question: if the federal government eliminates Medicaid expansion, why not allow those losing Medicaid to buy it back? Individuals…
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Closing the Door on Patients: Trump’s Expansion of Religious Refusals

The Ongoing Struggle to Ensure Dental Care Access for Low-Income Californians

In Face of Hostile Trump Administration, Washington State Takes Action to Protect and Expand Access to Reproductive Health Care

Proposed HHS Rules Will Reduce Access to Medicaid Services

As We Celebrate International Women’s Month, California Remains a National Leader on Women’s Health Care

Medicaid: The New Public Option?