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- December 19, 2017
NHeLP Comments on HHS’ Draft Strategic Plan
Read moreThe U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services' "Draft Strategic Plan," falls far short of protecting the nation's most vulnerable populations, NHeLP states in extensive comments submitted to HHS about its plan. NHeLP's comments focus on how the HHS strategic plan would adversely affect low-income women's access to…
- December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision
Read moreThe Trump administration's effort to weaken, if not destroy, the Affordable Care Act's landmark birth control provision, also includes a religious exemption for an array of employers, that as NHeLP explains in its comments to HHS opposing the exemption will "erect significant barriers to employees and their dependents to…
- December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Moral Exemptions from ACA Birth Control Provision
Read moreThe Trump administration's "Interim Final Rule for Moral Exemptions and Accommodations" for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s contraceptions provision flouts the intent of the ACA by allowing a wildly broad exemption for all kinds of employers, non and for-profit, to cite "moral" reasons for refusing to provide no-cost, FDA…
- August 4, 2017
NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Read moreIn comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called "Healthy Texas Women" Medicaid demonstration waiver. The comments submitted by NHeLP Legal Director Jane Perkins note that HHS has limited ability to waive provisions of Medicaid law. HHS "may only…
- May 31, 2017
Briefs on Public Coverage of Family Planning and Abortion Services: Reproductive Health Care Coverage in Medi-Cal
Read moreNHeLP's Reproductive Health Data and Insurance Accountability Project (the Data Project) is releasing a series of Issue Briefs on state-specific legal requirements and procedures governing coverage and access to abortion and family planning services in Medicaid programs in nine states. The first one in the series describes California's Medi-Cal…
