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February 15, 2017
Congressional Plans to Repeal the ACA Will Harm Victims of Black Lung
Sarah Somers Issue Brief
As NPR has recently noted black lung is not a thing of the past, with the numbers of those infected rising at "epidemic rates." Health and worker safety experts say the rates of the disease are hitting hardest in several states, such as Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and…
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February 14, 2017
Helping Those on HCBS Waiting Lists: Positive Impacts of the ACA
Elizabeth Edwards Issue Brief
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid expansion have helped improve access to home and community-based services (HCBS), as Senior Attorney Elizabeth Edwards explains in this paper. Edwards writes that states that expanded Medicaid added significantly fewer people to HCBS waiting lists compared to the states that did not…
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February 10, 2017
Protect Medicaid Funding: Pregnant Women, Issue 11 (Updated March 2017)
Amy Chen Issue Brief
Cutting the funding of Medicaid, whether through block grants or a per capita caps, will result in yanking vital health care coverage from pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid. In this issue of our Protect Medicaid Funding series, it is noted that Medicaid funds almost half of all births in…
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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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Congressional Plans to Repeal the ACA Will Harm Victims of Black Lung

Helping Those on HCBS Waiting Lists: Positive Impacts of the ACA

Protect Medicaid Funding: Pregnant Women, Issue 11 (Updated March 2017)

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