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December 3, 2020
NHeLP Comments on HHS Regulations Rule (aka SUNSET Rule)
Wayne Turner and Dania Douglas Comments
In the Regulations Rule, HHS seeks to retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000 duly promulgated regulations. Even long-standing rules would be automatically rescinded unless they survive a complex process of assessment and review. Programs like Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be…
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July 20, 2020
NHeLP comments on Medicaid Prescrption Drug Rebate Program and Value- based Purchasing Proposed Rulemaking
Wayne Turner, Liz McCaman Taylor, Madeline Morcelle, and Cathren Cohen Comments
In a proposed rule, CMS seeks to expand value-based purchasing arrangements for prescription drugs in commercial plans and the Medicaid program. However, the proposed changes offer a cost-containment strategy with no safeguards to ensure that Medicaid enrollees can continue to access needed outpatient prescription drugs. NHeLP comments warn against“cost…
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June 19, 2020
HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care
Wayne Turner, Mara Youdelman, and Madeline Morcelle Issue Brief, Fact Sheet
As part of its ongoing attacks on health care and civil rights, the Trump administration recently finalized drastic changes to regulations implementing Section 1557, the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provision. Section 1557 provides important protections against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin (including language access), sex,…
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May 27, 2020
Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19
Madeline Morcelle and Priscilla Huang Fact Sheet
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating pervasive obstacles to sexual health, family planning, prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum, and abortion care in the U.S. It is also illuminating how overlapping systems of oppression unjustly mar the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and people of…
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July 19, 2019
Webinar: Final Conscience Regulation – Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?
Susan Berke Fogel Webinar
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final version of its conscience rule. This updated rule purports to authorize individual health care workers and institutions to refuse to provide certain services by citing a religious or conscientious objection. Such leeway may have…
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June 21, 2019
Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang Manual/Report, Guide, Toolkit
The reproductive justice framework is rooted in the belief that all individuals and communities should have the resources and power they need to make their own decisions about their bodies, genders, sexualities, families, and lives. Access to Medicaid coverage is vital to fulfulling this framework for LGBTQ people. Medicaid…
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NHeLP Comments on HHS Regulations Rule (aka SUNSET Rule)

NHeLP comments on Medicaid Prescrption Drug Rebate Program and Value- based Purchasing Proposed Rulemaking

HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care

Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19

Webinar: Final Conscience Regulation – Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?

Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer