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- August 2, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California
Read moreCalifornia's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of pregnant women in the state, providing access to quality prenatal care and screenings, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as comprehensive abortion care. Designed to address the unique health care needs of low-income women, Medi-Cal…
- July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
Read moreThe opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drastically cut federal Medicaid funding threaten the care of the these children, "the hidden victims of the opioid crisis," writes Senior Attorney Jennifer Lav in…
- June 22, 2017
How Per Capita Caps Harm the Prevention and Treatment of New Viruses
Read moreIf Congress enacts a per capita cap on Medicaid, states will have fewer resources to prevent and treat the spread of emerging diseases, such as the recent outbreak of Zika in the southern United States and Puerto Rico. In this issue brief, Staff Attorney Candace Gibson argues that proposed…
- June 20, 2017
Threats to Public Health Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Read moreEvidence shows that funding public health initiatives not only improves health outcomes, it also reduces health care costs. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains several mechanisms to fund public health initiatives. The largest of these is the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF). The PPHF was created by ACA…
- May 12, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Children’s Health in California
Read moreIn the first of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series, NHeLP Staff Attorney Alicia Kauk details the importance of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to children's health in the state. The first Issue Brief, "Children's Health in California," notes that 5.7 million rely on Medi-Cal and that 42 percent of…
- April 16, 2017
How Medicaid Expansion Benefits Maternal and Child Health
Read moreThe expansion of Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act has improved "maternal and child health by providing a valuable source of coverage for women of reproductive age, particularly for preconception and interconception health care," write Senior Attorney Amy Chen and Health Law Fellow Daphne Wilson in an issue…
