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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 If the ACA and Medicaid expansion are repealed, Chen writes, it would likely make it…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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February 1, 2017
Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage
Catherine McKee Manual/Report
Conservative lawmakers in Congress have signaled they will consider fundamental changes to Medicaid, ones that as Staff Attorney Catherine McKee notes could further reduce coverage of abortions. In this paper, McKee explains current Medicaid coverage of abortion care, describes how Medicaid funding structure and general coverage requirements would change under…
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January 26, 2017
Issue Brief: Pregnancy-Related Medicaid and Minimum Essential Coverage
Amy Chen Issue Brief
In the issue brief, "Pregnancy-Related Medicaid and Minimum Essential Coverage," NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines federal guidance on pregnancy-related Medicaid and MEC, and the states that are failing to meet MEC standards. Chen concludes that state health advocates must continue to be vigilant to ensure that the "scope…
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January 26, 2017
Issue Brief: State Creation of Special Enrollment Periods for Pregnancy
Amy Chen Issue Brief
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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)

Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage

Issue Brief: Pregnancy-Related Medicaid and Minimum Essential Coverage

Issue Brief: State Creation of Special Enrollment Periods for Pregnancy