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.

January 2, 2019
The Ethical & Religious Directives: What the 2018 Update Means for Catholic Hospital Mergers
Hayley Penan and Amy Chen
The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) are directives promulgated by the United States Conference…
July 31, 2018
National Health Law Program in Comments to HHS Opposes Changes to Title X
Fabiola De Liban and Catherine McKee
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Health law Program strongly opposes…
December 19, 2017
NHeLP Comments on HHS’ Draft Strategic Plan
Elizabeth G. Taylor and Andy DiAntonio
The U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services' "Draft Strategic Plan," falls far short of protecting the nation's…
December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Religious Exemption from ACA Birth Control Provision
Andy DiAntonio
The Trump administration's effort to weaken, if not destroy, the Affordable Care Act's landmark birth control provision, also includes…
December 6, 2017
NHeLP Comments: HHS Rule on Moral Exemptions from ACA Birth Control Provision
Andy DiAntonio
The Trump administration's "Interim Final Rule for Moral Exemptions and Accommodations" for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s contraceptions provision…
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 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…
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 26, 2017
Top 10 Threats to Women’s Reproductive Health Under the Senate’s ACA Repeal Bill
Amy Chen
The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding poses serious threats the…
June 22, 2017
How Per Capita Caps Harm the Prevention and Treatment of New Viruses
Andy DiAntonio
If Congress enacts a per capita cap on Medicaid, states will have fewer resources to prevent and treat the…
May 31, 2017
Briefs on Public Coverage of Family Planning and Abortion Services: Reproductive Health Care Coverage in Medi-Cal
Andy DiAntonio
NHeLP'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 Chen
The so-called American Health Care Act (AHCA), pending in the U.S. Senate, would repeal progressive health care reforms brought…
May 19, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Women’s Health in California
Amy Chen
California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is vital to the health of millions of women in the state, providing access to…
May 16, 2017
Q&A: Recent Action Undermines Title X Program and Threatens Women’s Health
Catherine McKee and Candace Gibson
Recently the Trump administration took action to undermine a federal program that provides access to family planning services that…
April 16, 2017
How Medicaid Expansion Benefits Maternal and Child Health
Amy Chen
The expansion of Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act has improved "maternal and child health by providing a…
February 20, 2017
Threats to the Affordable Care Act and Women’s Reproductive Health
Amy Chen
In this fact sheet, Senior Attorney Amy Chen details the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that have helped…
February 10, 2017
Protect Medicaid Funding: Pregnant Women, Issue 11 (Updated March 2017)
Amy Chen
Cutting the funding of Medicaid, whether through block grants or a per capita caps, will result in yanking vital…
February 1, 2017
Q&A: How Upcoming Efforts to Transform Medicaid Could Affect Abortion Coverage
Catherine McKee
Conservative lawmakers in Congress have signaled they will consider fundamental changes to Medicaid, ones that as Staff Attorney Catherine…
December 16, 2016
California Pregnancy Health Coverage Chart Updated December 2016
Amy Chen
This chart provides a brief overview of some of the public health insurance programs for pregnant women in California.…
December 16, 2016
Issue Brief: Health Coverage Options for Low-Income Pregnant Women in California
Amy Chen
NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines California's public health insurance options available to women during pregnancies and for specified…