Each year, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) spends the month of April celebrating the lifesaving program that is Medicaid. Medicaid provides quality health care to more than 80 million people in the nation. Below is a curated selection or resources and cases we believe highlight our advocacy over the past year.
- June 29, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under Senate Bill: CA Implications
Amy ChenThe Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding threatens California women's access…
- June 26, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Senate’s ACA Repeal Bill
Amy ChenThe Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding poses serious threats the…
- May 31, 2017
Briefs on Public Coverage of Family Planning and Abortion Services
dfitzgeraldNHeLP's Reproductive Health Data and Insurance Accountability Project (the Data Project) is releasing a series of Issue Briefs on…
- May 31, 2017
Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Amy ChenThe so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), pending in the U.S. Senate, would repeal progressive health care reforms brought…
- February 20, 2017
Threats to the Affordable Care Act and Women’s Reproductive Health
Amy ChenIn this fact sheet, Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that have helped…
- February 1, 2017
Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage
Catherine McKeeConservative lawmakers in Congress have signaled they will consider fundamental changes to Medicaid, ones that as Staff Attorney Catherine…
- December 12, 2016
Principles for Reproductive Health in Delivery System and Payment Reform
External SourcePublic-and-private health systems are moving to reform how care is delivered and financed. Improving women's health care and outcomes…
- December 2, 2016
Amicus Brief: Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri v. Mosier
Jane PerkinsNHeLP and other health care and women's advocates filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
- October 3, 2016
The Data Project
dfitzgeraldNHeLP's Reproductive Health Data and Insurance Accountability Project (the Data Project) and the Women's Law Project on October 3…
- September 23, 2016
Health Advocate: States Expand Coverage of Contraception
dfitzgeraldStates are taking the initiative to bolster federal health care policy intended to provide comprehensive contraceptive coverage, Staff Attorney…
- August 26, 2016
Amicus Brief: State of Alaska v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest
Catherine McKeeNHeLP and the Northern Justice Project filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood and urging affirmance of…
- August 18, 2016
Letters to Walgreens & SSM Health Medical Group
Amy Chen and dfitzgeraldIn letters to Walgreens and Catholic-sponsored SSM Health Medical Group, NHeLP and the ACLU of Illinois, ACLU of Missouri…
- June 23, 2016
Issue Brief 5: Medicaid Managed Care Final Regulations and Reproductive Health
Catherine McKeeIn this issue brief, NHeLP Staff Attorney Catherine McKee reviews the recently finalized Medicaid managed care regulations, and how…
- June 7, 2016
Issue Brief: What Zubik v. Burwell Means
Catherine McKeeGiven that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to reach the merits in Zubik v. Burwell, the battle over the…
- May 18, 2016
Fact Sheet: The ACA Contraceptive Coverage Rule
dfitzgeraldThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most health insurance plans to provide coverage for a broad range of women's…
- April 12, 2016
CMS Highlights State Policies to Improve Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods
Catherine McKeeThe Maternal and Infant Health Initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Informational Bulletin highlighting state…
- March 11, 2016
Webinar: Confidentiality Protections – Implications on Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
dfitzgeraldData Project partners report confidentiality as a significant barrier to access for clients and patients seeking sexual and reproductive…
- February 19, 2016
NHeLP Amicus Brief: Zubik v. Burwell
dfitzgeraldThis case will decide whether non-profit employers are able to deny their employees access to contraceptive services on religious…
- January 14, 2016
Letter to Oregon AG: St. Joseph and Providence Request for a Waiver from the Attorney General Standard Review Process
External Source and dfitzgeraldThirteen public interest organizations have written Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenbaum urging her to reject a request for a…