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March 8, 2018
Arkansas’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara Youdelman and Rachel Holtzman Issue Brief
The so-called "Arkansas Works" Medicaid waiver scheme recently approved by Trump's HHS is not only legally suspect, but will disproportionally harm people of color who need health care the most -- these are groups of people who have long been discriminated against in the health care system. The National…
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March 6, 2018
Arkansas’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity
Mara Youdelman Issue Brief
On March 5, 2018 HHS approved a section 1115 waiver requested by Arkansas. The approved project is effectively a cut that will worsen or eliminate access to Medicaid for low-income individuals. This proposal will have a significant detrimental impact on people of color, women, and people with disabilities. This…
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March 6, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities
David Machledt Issue Brief
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March 6, 2018
HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver Project in Arkansas
David Machledt Issue Brief
Trump's HHS is pushing states like Arkansas to alter their Medicaid programs in legally suspect ways, such as adding work requirement programs in order for low-income individuals and families to access health care. The Arkansas waiver project also locks people out if they are unable to document in specific ways…
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February 22, 2018
NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis
dfitzgerald Comments
The National Health Law Program in comments to the Senate Finance Committee urges lawmakers to support Medicaid and its funding structure in efforts to address the opioid epidemic, which "now kills more individuals than HIV/AIDs did at the height of that epidemic in the 1990s." The National Health Law…
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February 15, 2018
State Medicaid Buy-Ins: Implications for Low-Income Enrollees
Jennifer Lav and Héctor Hernández-Delgado Issue Brief
With the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress constantly looking for ways to undermine Medicaid and destroy Medicaid Expansion, several states have started to consider so-called "Medicaid buy-ins." NHeLP attorneys Jennifer Lav and Hector Hernandez-Delgado look at the various state Medicaid buy-in plans and caution, "Advocates should remain vigilant that…
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Arkansas’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity

Arkansas’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver & Its Impact on Health Equity

HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver in Arkansas: Effects on People with Disabilities

HHS Approves Harmful Section 1115 Waiver Project in Arkansas

NHeLP Comments Urge Senate to Safeguard Medicaid in Addressing Opioid Crisis

State Medicaid Buy-Ins: Implications for Low-Income Enrollees