Medicaid Awareness Month Resources

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.

September 15, 2017
Top 10 Changes to Medicaid Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
Mara Youdelman and Kimberly Lewis
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Dean Heller and Ron Johnson (hereinafter "Graham-Cassidy") this week introduced a bill to repeal…
August 11, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Arkansas’ Amended Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services (HHS), NHeLP urges the department to reject…
August 11, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Reproductive Health
Fabiola Carrión and Andy DiAntonio
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, provides vital and comprehensive reproductive health care for millions of low-income women in the state…
August 8, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Modified Sec. 1115 Waiver
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Kentucky's…
August 4, 2017
NHeLP Comments on ‘Healthy Texas Women’ Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Texas' so-called…
August 2, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Pregnant Women’s Health Care in California
Amy Chen
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of pregnant women in the state, providing access…
July 24, 2017
Children of the Opioid Crisis
Andy DiAntonio
The opioid crisis has caused an influx of children in the foster care system, and proposals in Congress to…
July 21, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Substance and Use Disorders
Andy DiAntonio
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to ensuring that "individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) have access to to…
July 20, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Wisconsin’s Request to Amend its Sec. 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the department to reject Wisconsin's…
July 14, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Access to Providers
Andy DiAntonio
Senate Republicans' effort to radically slash federal Medicaid funding would threaten the ability of California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to…
July 12, 2017
NHeLP’s Medicaid and ACA Defense Publications
Andy DiAntonio
Below you will find NHeLP's master list of publications from 2016-2017. This list is intended to act as a…
July 11, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Kentucky’s Sec. 1115 Waiver Proposal
Andy DiAntonio
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges the HHS Secretary to reject…
July 10, 2017
Webinar: Section 1115 Demonstration Waivers
Jane Perkins
As part of the NHeLP's "Protect Medicaid Webinar Series," Legal Director Jane Perkins and Cindy Mann, former director of…
July 10, 2017
NHeLP Comments on Indiana’s Amended HIP Plan 2.0 Sec. 1115 Waiver
Jane Perkins
In comments to the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services, NHeLP urges Secretary Thomas Price to reject…
July 7, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Enrollment & Continuity of Coverage
Andy DiAntonio
The Senate Republican's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid funding, would "jeopardize the health and…
July 5, 2017
Sec. 1115 Demonstration Authority: Medicaid Provisions That Prohibit a Waiver
Jane Perkins
With HHS Secretary Tom Price open to Section 1115 waivers in Medicaid that could create obstacles to accessing Medicaid…
June 30, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Women Living with HIV
Andy DiAntonio
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, covers nearly 30,000 Californians living with HIV. Women living with HIV are disproportionately women of…
June 29, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under Senate Bill: CA Implications
Amy Chen
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding threatens California women's access…
June 29, 2017
10 Changes to Medicaid Under Senate’s ACA Repeal Bill: CA Implications (Updated)
Andy DiAntonio
On July 13, Senate Republicans updated the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and eliminate the current…
June 26, 2017
Detrimental Effects of Allowing States to Waive the Essential Health Benefits
Michelle Lilienfeld and Hector Hernandez-Delgado
In "Detrimental Effects of Allowing States to Waive the Essential Health Benefits," Senior Attorney Michelle Lilienfeld and Staff Attorney Héctor Hernández-Delgado explain how…