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 30, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding, Women Living with HIV
Andy DiAntonioCalifornia'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 ChenThe Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically slash Medicaid funding threatens California women's access…
- June 22, 2017
How Per Capita Caps Harm the Prevention and Treatment of New Viruses
Andy DiAntonioIf 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 DiAntonioNHeLP'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…
- May 19, 2017
Protect Medi-Cal Funding Series, Women’s Health in California
Amy ChenCalifornia'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 GibsonRecently 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 ChenThe expansion of Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act has improved "maternal and child health by providing a…
- March 10, 2017
Medicaid – Fast Facts
Mara YoudelmanWith conservative House Republicans threatening to "reform" Medicaid, you need the facts to understand that reform is not what…
- 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 10, 2017
Protect Medicaid Funding: Pregnant Women, Issue 11 (Updated March 2017)
Amy ChenCutting the funding of Medicaid, whether through block grants or a per capita caps, will result in yanking vital…
- February 10, 2017
Protect Medicaid Funding: Women Living with HIV, Issue 7 (Updated Feb. 2017)
Jamille Fields and Catherine McKeeCutting the funding of Medicaid whether through block grants or a per capita cap will result in yanking health…
- 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…
- January 26, 2017
Issue Brief: Pregnancy-Related Medicaid and Minimum Essential Coverage
Amy ChenIn the issue brief, "Pregnancy-Related Medicaid and Minimum Essential Coverage," NHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines federal guidance on…
- January 26, 2017
Issue Brief: State Creation of Special Enrollment Periods for Pregnancy
Amy ChenThe Affordable Care Act helped improve health care coverage for maternity care, but gaps remain preventing some women from…
- January 25, 2017
Health Advocate: The Year Ahead: Medicaid Works!
Mara YoudelmanWith the Trump administration and lawmakers in the new Congress suggesting they will pursue changing Medicaid through block grants…
- December 16, 2016
California Pregnancy Health Coverage Chart Updated December 2016
Amy ChenThis 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 ChenNHeLP Senior Attorney Amy Chen examines California's public health insurance options available to women during pregnancies and for specified…
- December 12, 2016
Principles for Reproductive Health in Delivery System and Payment Reform
External Source and Andy DiAntonioPublic-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…
