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June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline Morcelle Article
Expanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve states refuse to do so—a discriminatory political choice intertwined with racism in policymaking. The result is the Medicaid coverage gap: an estimated 4.4 million people with low incomes—nearly all of…
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May 6, 2021
State Momnibus Bills Take Aim at the Black Maternal Mortality Epidemic
Helen Mun* and Madeline Morcelle california, Health Equity, Homepage, SRH Health Equity
Our country is in the throes of a Black maternal mortality epidemic. Black birthing people are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than their white counterparts. Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has created new and worsened existing barriers to health care and…
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April 14, 2021
It’s Black Maternal Health Week. We Need Bold Federal Legislative Solutions to Save Black Lives
Madeline Morcelle and Helen Mun* california, Health Equity, Homepage, SRH Health Equity
The people closest to the problems are closest to the solutionsIt’s Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW)—a time for awareness, activism, and community building to deepen the national conversation about the Black maternal mortality and morbidity epidemic and commit to community-driven solutions. NHeLP joined Black Mamas Matter Alliance, the National…
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March 12, 2021
American Rescue Plan Act Takes Landmark Step Toward Ending Our Black and Indigenous Maternal Mortality Epidemic
Madeline Morcelle Coronavirus, Health Equity, SRH Health Equity
With the stroke of a pen on March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) giving states the option to provide continuous Medicaid and CHIP coverage through twelve months postpartum. Inside the U.S.’ Maternal Mortality EpidemicPeople in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy-related complications…
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August 10, 2018
Fact Sheet: Medicaid & Reproductive Justice
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang Fact Sheet
Reproductive justice is a social movement 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. In this fact sheet, the National Health Law Program along with All* Above All, National Asian Pacific…
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Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result

State Momnibus Bills Take Aim at the Black Maternal Mortality Epidemic

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. We Need Bold Federal Legislative Solutions to Save Black Lives

American Rescue Plan Act Takes Landmark Step Toward Ending Our Black and Indigenous Maternal Mortality Epidemic

Fact Sheet: Medicaid & Reproductive Justice