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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health

    Fabiola Carrión

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides vital and comprehensive reproductive health care for millions of low-income women in the state that would be endangered if efforts in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act and impose draconian cuts on the Medicaid program are successful , writes Senior Attorney Fabiola Carrión…

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  • NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Modified Sec. 1115 Waiver

    In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Kentucky's modified application for a Sec. 1115 demonstration waiver project. NHeLP's comments incorporate its comments to the Kentucky's initial waiver application. Kentucky's modified waiver application seeks the ability to impose work…

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  • NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project

    In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called "Healthy Texas Women" Medicaid demonstration waiver. The comments submitted by NHeLP Legal Director Jane Perkins note that HHS has limited ability to waive provisions of Medicaid law. HHS "may only…

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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California

    California'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…

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  • Children of the Opioid Crisis

    The 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…

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  • Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders

    California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to evidence-based, life-saving prevention and treatment services," NHeLP Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado  writes in the tenth Issue Brief of a 12-part "Protect Medi-Cal Funding," series. Hernández-Delgado details how the Senate bill…

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