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.

June 28, 2021
Closing The Medicaid Coverage Gap: Preventing a Separate and Unequal Result
Madeline Morcelle
Expanding Medicaid is an urgent moral, anti-racist, health equity, reproductive justice, and economic imperative. Yet today, policymakers in twelve…
May 10, 2021
Webinar: Public Charge and Reproductive Justice Administrative Advocacy
Priscilla Huang, Lucie Avallo, and Phoebe Suva
This webinar from the Medicaid and Reproductive Justice Collaborative addressed administrative advocacy and how reproductive justice advocates can engage…
March 4, 2021
NHeLP attorney Madeline Morcelle publishes op-ed with Rewire News Group
Madeline Morcelle
NHeLP attorney Madeline Morcelle published an op-ed with Rewire News Group on how the Trump-era public charge rule harms…
February 16, 2021
Comments on Utah 1115 Primary Care Network Demonstration Waiver Amendment Request: In Vitro Fertilization and Genetic Testing for Qualified Conditions
Jennifer Lav and Catherine McKee
In comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health Law Program asks HHS to reject…
December 8, 2020
Testimony on the Hyde Amendment before the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Madeline Morcelle
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) submitted this testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Labor, Health…
December 3, 2020
NHeLP Comments on HHS Regulations Rule (aka SUNSET Rule)
Wayne Turner and Dania Douglas
In the Regulations Rule, HHS seeks to retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000 duly promulgated…
October 19, 2020
What Public Charge Means for Reproductive Justice
Priscilla Huang and Madeline Morcelle
Update: As of March 9, 2021, the Trump-era public charge regulations are no longer in effect. The Biden administration published…
September 17, 2020
NHeLP comments on Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (the “Orange Book”)
Liz McCaman Taylor
The Orange Book is an important and informative drug resource for a range of stakeholders. In a request for…
July 16, 2020
June Medical Services v. Russo and the Work that Remains for Underserved Populations
Fabiola De Liban and Abigail Coursolle
On June 29th, the Supreme Court ruled in June Medical Services vs. Russo that Louisiana’s admitting privileges law is…
June 19, 2020
HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care
Wayne Turner, Mara Youdelman, and Madeline Morcelle
As part of its ongoing attacks on health care and civil rights, the Trump administration recently finalized drastic changes…
May 27, 2020
Top Ten List: Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access in the Time of COVID-19
Madeline Morcelle and Priscilla Huang
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating pervasive obstacles to sexual health, family planning, prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum,…
February 18, 2020
Comments on HHS Proposed Rule on Religiously-Affiliated Providers
Wayne Turner
HHS is attempting to roll back important protections for individuals seeking services from religiously-affiliated providers in a rulemaking it…
July 19, 2019
Webinar: Final Conscience Regulation – Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?
Susan Berke Fogel
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final version of its conscience…
June 21, 2019
Medicaid as an LGBTQ Reproductive Justice Issue: A Primer
Candace Gibson and Priscilla Huang
The reproductive justice framework is rooted in the belief that all individuals and communities should have the resources and…
June 4, 2019
Protections for LGBTQ People with Behavioral Health Needs
Abigail Coursolle
Despite progress in breaking down discrimination against LGBTQ people seeking access to quality health care, the current administration and…
June 4, 2019
Q&A: Proposed Rollback of Nondiscrimination Protections Under the ACA’s Section 1557
Wayne Turner and Candace Gibson
In courts and through regulatory action, the administration is vigorously working to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On…
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…
December 21, 2018
Comments Urging HIV Prevention Drug be Designated an ACA “A” Recommended Service
Wayne Turner and Liz McCaman Taylor
People who are at risk for HIV can prevent infection by taking a daily medication - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis…
November 29, 2018
National Health Law Program Analysis of California’s Conditional Merger of Catholic Hospitals
Amy Chen
Senior Attorney Amy Chen provides analysis of the California Department of Justice's recent conditioned approval of Catholic health care…
September 27, 2018
Health and Civil Rights Groups’ Comments on Calif. Proposed Merger of Catholic Health Systems
Andy DiAntonio
The National Health Law Program along with more than 20 health, civil and human rights groups, filed comments with…