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February 10, 2017
Protect Medicaid Funding: Women Living with HIV, Issue 7 (Updated Feb. 2017)
Jamille Fields and Catherine McKee Issue Brief
Cutting the funding of Medicaid whether through block grants or a per capita cap will result in yanking health care coverage from our most vulnerable. Medicaid covers almost half of all people getting regular HIV treatment, many of them women. Limiting the scope of Medicaid will leave many without…
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February 7, 2017
Medicaid & the ACA: Vital Tools in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
Corey Davis and Héctor Hernández-Delgado Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid have been "instrumental in increasing access to evidence-based prevention and treatment for people with and at risk for SUD," write Senior Attorney Corey Davis and Health Law Fellow Hector Hernandez-Delgado in an extensive new Issue Brief. The authors explain how efforts to repeal…
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February 1, 2017
Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage
Catherine McKee Manual/Report
Conservative lawmakers in Congress have signaled they will consider fundamental changes to Medicaid, ones that as Staff Attorney Catherine McKee notes could further reduce coverage of abortions. In this paper, McKee explains current Medicaid coverage of abortion care, describes how Medicaid funding structure and general coverage requirements would change under…
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January 31, 2017
Issue Brief: 50 Reasons Medicaid Expansion is Good for Your State
Jane Perkins and Ian McDonald Issue Brief
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January 25, 2017
Health Advocate: The Year Ahead: Medicaid Works!
Mara Youdelman Health Advocate
With the Trump administration and lawmakers in the new Congress suggesting they will pursue changing Medicaid through block grants or capping or cutting its federal funding, NHeLP D.C. Managing Attorney Mara Youdelman details the ways Medicaid is helping tens of millions of Americans each year. "Medicaid is more important than…
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January 11, 2017
The Importance of National Coverage Standards in Medicaid
Jane Perkins and Catherine McKee Issue Brief
Currently federal Medicaid law ensures that beneficiaries can access health services that reflect standards of care, write Legal Director Jane Perkins and Staff Attorney Catherine McKee in this fact sheet. States must provide "core services when medically necessary," but proposals to cut or cap Medicaid funding "threaten federal coverage…
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Protect Medicaid Funding: Women Living with HIV, Issue 7 (Updated Feb. 2017)

Medicaid & the ACA: Vital Tools in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage

Issue Brief: 50 Reasons Medicaid Expansion is Good for Your State

Health Advocate: The Year Ahead: Medicaid Works!

The Importance of National Coverage Standards in Medicaid