- January 14, 2025
Proposed Medicaid Work Requirements are Another Dangerous Attack on Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Access (Updated)
The year is 2025, and sexual and reproductive health care access is under attack on all fronts. Millions of…
- December 1, 2024
World AIDS Day 2024 – Fight AIDS! Protect Medicaid!
Gerald Lee Joyce died from AIDS at age 43 on February 10, 2017. His sister recounted his final months…
- July 27, 2023
How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice
The United States (U.S.) has a long history of regulating and restricting immigrants’ self-determination over their health, bodies, reproduction,…
- May 23, 2023
Where Are We With LGBTQI+ Inclusive Health Data? One Year After President Biden’s LGBTQI+ Equity EO
Why is improved LGBTQI+ inclusion in federal data, including surveys and administrative forms, so important for the health and…
- May 16, 2023
NHeLP’s Automated Decision-Making Principles in Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding
NHeLP’s Principles for Fairer, More Responsive Automated Decision-Making Systems outline how to realize the benefits of Automated Decision-Making Systems…
- April 20, 2023
Work Requirements are a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea for Medicaid
Speaker McCarthy released his long-awaited proposal to address the debt ceiling. As expected, he included a provision to impose…
- April 20, 2023
A Shot at Inclusion – Revising the Race and Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? This question is front and center for health care data as…
- March 17, 2023
Breaking down Biden’s Budget Proposal for FY 2024
On March 9, 2023, President Biden released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2024. While the proposal is not…
- February 22, 2023
Reparations in California: NHeLP Launches New Issue Brief Series on California’s Reparations Task Force Newly Released Interim Report
African Americans have suffered and persevered through centuries of slavery, segregation, disenfranchisement, economic and educational discrimination, wealth inequality, medical…
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