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May 31, 2018
Despite Trump’s Health Care Sabotage, California is Fighting to Protect Access to Essential Health Benefits
Héctor Hernández-Delgado california, Uncategorized
The Trump administration issued the Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters Final Rule for 2019 (HHS 2019 Final Rule), which introduced several changes to the way states define individual and small-group market coverage of the ten Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) mandated by the Affordable Care Act. The HHS 2019…
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May 23, 2018
In the Midst of Sabotage, Some Are Charting the Course for a Just, Equitable Health Care System
Candace Gibson and Rachel Holtzman Health Equity, Uncategorized
Despite historic gains made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in reducing health disparities, significant disparities remain. Recent news coverage on staggeringly high black maternal mortality – three to four times the rate of white mothers – is only one of countless examples of the effects of institutionalized racism…
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April 23, 2018
Trump Rule Targets Landmark Health Care Law by Weakening Essential Health Benefits’ Standards
Candace Gibson, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Wayne Turner Uncategorized
Sixty-seven percent of consumers believe that the top health care priority should be to lower out-of-pocket costs, instead of cutting benefits and consumer protections. Yet the Trump administration continues to undermine the progress made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in ensuring that people have access to basic health…
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April 13, 2018
Closed formularies in Medicaid are No Solution for Lowering Drug Costs
Abigail Coursolle and Wayne Turner Uncategorized
For people living at or near the federal poverty line, Medicaid coverage can literally mean the difference between living a long, healthy, and productive life; or suffering with an untreated, painful, and potentially deadly medical condition. Consider Vickie Goldstein, a Florida Medicaid beneficiary who was diagnosed with hepatitis C—a…
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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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Despite Trump’s Health Care Sabotage, California is Fighting to Protect Access to Essential Health Benefits

In the Midst of Sabotage, Some Are Charting the Course for a Just, Equitable Health Care System

Trump Rule Targets Landmark Health Care Law by Weakening Essential Health Benefits’ Standards

Closed formularies in Medicaid are No Solution for Lowering Drug Costs

Closing the Door on Patients: Trump’s Expansion of Religious Refusals

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