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May 16, 2017
Q&A: Recent Action Undermines Title X Program and Threatens Women’s Health
Catherine McKee and Candace Gibson Consumer Brochure
Recently the Trump administration took action to undermine a federal program that provides access to family planning services that affects millions of women. In "Q&A: Recent Action Undermines Title X Program and Threatens Women's Health," Staff Attorney Candace Gibson and Senior Attorney Catherine McKee, explain what Title X is…
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April 16, 2017
How Medicaid Expansion Benefits Maternal and Child Health
Amy Chen Issue Brief
The expansion of Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act has improved "maternal and child health by providing a valuable source of coverage for women of reproductive age, particularly for preconception and interconception health care," write Senior Attorney Amy Chen and Health Law Fellow Daphne Wilson in an issue…
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March 10, 2017
Medicaid – Fast Facts
Mara Youdelman Issue Brief
With conservative House Republicans threatening to "reform" Medicaid, you need the facts to understand that reform is not what is being sought. Medicaid provides quality care to tens of millions of low-income individuals and underserved communities. The effort to cap federal funding for the program is aimed at shredding…
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February 20, 2017
Threats to the Affordable Care Act and Women’s Reproductive Health
Amy Chen Manual/Report
In this fact sheet, Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that have helped improve access to reproductive health care services for tens of millions of low income women. If the ACA and Medicaid expansion are repealed, Chen writes, it would likely make it…
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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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Q&A: Recent Action Undermines Title X Program and Threatens Women’s Health

How Medicaid Expansion Benefits Maternal and Child Health

Medicaid – Fast Facts

Threats to the Affordable Care Act and Women’s Reproductive Health

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

Protect Medicaid Funding: Women Living with HIV, Issue 7 (Updated Feb. 2017)