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.
- April 20, 2026
Health Advocates Letter to Congress: Fund Health Care, Not Attacks on Immigrants and Communities
Mia Villasenor and Madeline MorcelleAt a time when communities are struggling with health care access, Congress should be supporting communities by strengthening Medicaid,…
- October 30, 2025
Webinar – The Impact of OBBBA on People with Disabilities
Jennifer Lav, Brit Vanneman, and Elizabeth ZirkerThis webinar discusses the impact of OBBBA on people with disabilities, including: Work requirement exemptions and compliance for people…
- October 15, 2025
A $50 Billion Band-Aid?: States Considering Rural Health Funding Should Proceed With Caution
Geraldine DoetzerLast month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its one-time application for the Rural Health Transformation Program…
- October 14, 2025
Webinar – Access to Care: Cost Sharing, Premiums, and Retroactive Eligibility
Abigail Coursolle and Héctor Hernández-DelgadoThis webinar will discuss changes introduced by OBBA to the Medicaid Act's cost-sharing, premiums, and retroactive eligibility provisions and…
- October 2, 2025
Webinar: The role of due process
Amanda Avery and Katy DeBriereThis webinar discusses the key role due process will play in implementation of the changes to Medicaid under OBBBA.…
- September 18, 2025
State Options to Implement Provisions of the Eligibility and Enrollment Final Rule Post-OBBBA
Shandra HartlyThis chart provides information about the status of each provision of the 2024 Eligibility and Enrollment Final Rule following…
- September 17, 2025
Medicaid Financing after OBBBA: State Directed Payments and Provider Taxes
Geraldine DoetzerThe so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) makes changes to complex but crucial Medicaid financing mechanisms that are…
- September 11, 2025
Webinar – How Automated Eligibility Systems Can Harm or Help Applicants and Enrollees Support
Katy DeBriere and Alicia EmanuelThis webinar will explore the use of automated systems for Medicaid eligibility and enrollment tasks in the wake of…
- August 21, 2025
Eligibility and Enrollment Provisions in OBBBA
Katy DeBriere, Shandra Hartly, and Jules LutabaThe so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act, hereinafter referred to as “OBBBA”, negatively impacts eligibility and enrollment for Medicaid…
- August 21, 2025
Changes to Medi-Cal and Covered California Under the OBBBA and the CA Budget
California Policy TeamH.R. 1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” (OBBBA) cuts approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid which…
- August 14, 2025
Webinar: What We Know and What Happens Next – OBBBA Overview and Implementation Timeline
Geraldine Doetzer, Christina Piecora, Andy DiAntonio, and Wayne TurnerThe reconciliation package passed by Congressional Republicans and signed into law in July will have major adverse effects on…
- August 13, 2025
Budget Reconciliation Act Implementation Dates For Select Medicaid & Health Provisions
Geraldine DoetzerThis chart identifies implementation dates for select health provisions of the Senate engrossed version of the budget reconciliation bill…
- June 18, 2025
Top 10 Reasons Why the Senate Finance Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Is Worse than the House-passed Bill Regarding Health Coverage
Mara Youdelman, David Machledt, Cat Duffy, and Geraldine DoetzerRepublicans on the Senate Finance Committee recently released their draft of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, proposing…
- June 12, 2025
Conditional Care: The Real Cost of Medicaid Work Requirements
David Machledt, Geraldine Doetzer, Georgesula Ziama, Jennifer Lav, and Emma Parker-NewtonThe so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would force close to 8 million people off of Medicaid - one…
- June 12, 2025
Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Justice-Involved Individuals Transitioning Out of Incarceration
Jasmine YoungThis so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will cut billions from Medicaid and heavily impact individuals who are transitioning out…
- June 5, 2025
The Top 10 Reasons Why House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Will Devastate Maternal and Child Health
Madeline MorcelleThis article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for…
- May 23, 2025
Top 10 Reasons Why House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Is Bad for Medi-Cal (and the Affordable Care Act)
National Health Law Program (NHeLP)*This article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for…
- May 16, 2025
Top 10 Ways the House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill Will Harm People with Disabilities
Brit Vanneman, Shandra Hartly, Dania Douglas, and Cat Duffy*This article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for…
- May 13, 2025
Top 10 Reasons Why House Republicans’ Reconciliation Bill is Bad for Medicaid (and the ACA)
National Health Law Program (NHeLP)*This article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for…
- May 13, 2025
Top 10 Reasons Why House Republicans’ Work Requirement Proposal Will Harm Low-Income People
Jennifer Lav and David Machledt*This article discusses the GOP reconciliation package, officially called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and its implications for…
