The Coronavirus pandemic has upended life for people across the United States and the world. But the experience and severity are not equal.
In the United States, deep inequities, rooted in a history of exploitation and maltreatment of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, are making the COVID crisis worse. Intersecting communities of people have been systematically “otherized” to the detriment of their health.
We cannot be silent anymore. The National Health Law Program’s health equity blog series focuses on the grave health inequities plaguing this country. The time is now – let’s make this the tipping point in addressing health inequities!
Our Health Equity blog series launches Monday, July 27. We encourage you to explore our back catalog of blogs touching on issues of health care and race, access, and health equity.
- July 27, 2023
How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice
Read moreThe 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…
- May 16, 2023
NHeLP’s Automated Decision-Making Principles in Medicaid Continuous Coverage Unwinding
Read moreNHeLP’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…
- April 21, 2023
Proposed Medicaid Work Requirements are Another Dangerous Attack on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice
Read moreThe 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…
- April 20, 2023
Work Requirements are a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea for Medicaid
Read moreSpeaker 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,…
- April 20, 2023
A Shot at Inclusion – Revising the Race and Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
Read moreWho lives, who dies, who tells your story? This question is front and center for health care data as the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) works to finalize…
